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“We will submit a law proposal on crypto-assets to the parliament as soon as possible,” Simsek said, according to CryptoX Turkey. “After that, there will be no reason for Turkey to stay in that grey list, if there are no other political considerations.” Source
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Even where implemented, there are discrepancies. Canada, for instance, requires operators to jot down beneficiaries’ postal addresses, while the U.K. doesn’t, and firms are caught in a quandary when handling a transfer between the two, Caterina Veloso, co-chair of lobby group CryptoUK’s travel rule working group, told CryptoX. Source
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The Capital Markets Authority also placed an "absolute" ban on all digital asset mining, prohibited the recognition of crypto as decentralized currency, and also warned the public that companies are not allowed to provide any type of crypto-related services. Source
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Japan's crypto industry has been grappling with the travel rule since 2021 when Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) requested virtual asset services providers to implement it. In April 2022, Japan's Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) introduced self-regulatory rules accordingly. In October last year, Japan's government approved a cabinet decision to
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This October, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global anti-money laundering watchdog, is expected to adopt sweeping updates to its guidance on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). The FATF’s guidance will have a profound and widespread impact on the shape of regulation facing the crypto industry.
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FATF warns regulators to not blindly accept the crypto industry marketing that loosely calls various platforms “decentralized.” In function, these platforms typically have a natural, if not legal, person somewhere who controls or influences their activities. The term “controls or influences” is key and offers a framework to analyze who
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Crypto exchange BitMEX has published a framework of principles for how best to store additional batches of transactional provenance data, a requirement exchanges face as part of new anti-money laundering (AML) rules.In order to fall in line with the rest of the financial system, virtual asset service providers (VASPs) have
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FinTech company CoolBitX may have a solution for countries that have not yet complied with the Financial Action Task Force’s “travel rule”. According to a statement from CoolBitX shared with Cryptox on July 21, the blockchain security company announced it would be partnering with cryptocurrency forensics firm Elliptic to address anti-money
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BitGo, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) transaction processors, is integrating a new API into its crypto wallet service to support the Financial Action Task Force’s travel rule.BitGo told Cryptox on July 14 that the company is the first wallet service to provide an in-house API solution for the
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Yesterday, it came to light that crypto functionality may come to PayPal and Venmo. If true, as substantiated by three anonymous sources and indicated by an open position for a senior blockchain research engineer, 325 million users would be able to buy and sell crypto. “If it does happen, it has the potential
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