The five W’s and How of Hong Kong’s mutual evaluation assessment Jul 5, 2019 | AML/CTF, Anti-bribery and corruptionAs Hong Kong eagerly anticipates the release of the Financial Action Task Force’s (“FATF”) mutual evaluation report (“MER”), discussed at last...
US regulation of virtual assets Jun 18, 2019 | AML/CTF, RegTech, Regulatory action, Sanctions, TechnologyThe United States (“US”) government has continued its drive to regulate virtual currencies through the first half of 2019. Its chief tools have...
The new frontier in sanctions – OFAC and Bitcoin Dec 5, 2018 | AML/CTF, Cybercrime, RegTechThe United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has, for the first time, listed two Bitcoin addresses...