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Weekly Blockchain Blog - December 2024 #3

BakerHostetler on 12/23/2024

Digital Asset Companies Achieve Licenses, Launch Stablecoin Products - According to a recent press release, Anchorage Digital, a digital asset platform and infrastructure provider, announced that the New York State...more

CryptoLink - December 2023 Updates

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/19/2024

On the one hand, the year ended where it began. The legislation on stabelecoins and market structure that would provide a regulatory framework for digital assets has still not been enacted into law. And Securities and...more

Financiamiento Del Terrorismo: Señales De Alerta De FinCEN

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 11/29/2023

El 20/10/23, FinCEN emitió Señales de Alerta (“Red Flags”) sobre el Financiamiento del Terrorismo para ayudar a las instituciones financieras a identificar flujos de financiamiento para la organización terrorista Hamás en...more

Terrorist Financing FinCEN Red Flags

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 11/29/2023

On 10/20/23, Terrorist Financing Red Flags were issued by FinCEN to assist financial institutions in identifying funding streams for the terrorist organization Hamas in response to Hamas’s terrorist attack on the people of...more

FinCEN Targets Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing to Combat Terrorist Financing and Other Illegal Transactions

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/27/2023

Convertible virtual currency (CVC) mixing is in the crosshairs of U.S. national security policy. On October 19, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”)...more

International AML Enforcement in 2017 Expected to Target Consumer-Due-Diligence Programs, Gaming Entities, Prepaid Cards, Digital...

K&L Gates LLP on 11/30/2016

Over the past two years, financial regulatory bodies in the United States and Europe have increasingly emphasized consumer due diligence (“CDD”) by financial institutions as a means to combat money laundering and terrorist...more

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