On August 20, 2019, the Swiss Banking Association (“SBA”) released guidelines for member banks (in German with Italian, French and English versions to follow) about opening company accounts for companies
22 September 2019
28 May 2019
During a speech at Consenus 2019, Sigal Mandelker, the U.S. Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, reiterated the projection that the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) will adopt
17 April 2019
On April 8, 2019, Jacob Burrell Campos of Rosarito, Mexico, was sentenced to two years in prison and to forfeit USD 823,357 in illicit profits for operating an unlicensed money
12 April 2019
We have previously written about New York’s BitLicense regulations, which prohibit companies from engaging in “virtual currency business activity” in New York, or with New York residents, without a license. Bittrex,
12 March 2019
On March 11, 2019, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had entered into a Consent Order
13 November 2018
On October 24, 2018, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) accredited the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA, established in
22 October 2018
On October 10, CipherTrace – a developer of cryptocurrency AML, bitcoin forensics, and blockchain threat solutions – released its Cryptocurrency
08 October 2018
During 2017, the issue that probably got the most attention for companies raising capital through initial coin offerings (ICOs) was
28 September 2018
Switzerland often ranks among the most friendly and accommodating countries for blockchain-based companies to conduct their initial coin or token
24 September 2018
In February 2018, the UK Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into digital currencies. In the course of its inquiry the
