U.S. Treasury Says It Wants to Better Money Laundering Regulations Around Crypto, Other Illicit Finance
The Department released its 2024 strategy for addressing illicit financing on Thursday.
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May 16, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
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Tether Enters Transaction Surveillance Partnership with Chainalysis as Regulatory Pressure Mounts
The monitoring system would help Tether identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities like terrorist financing, the company...
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Illicit Funds in Crypto Ecosystem Shrank 9% Last Year, Yet Criminals Still Handled Nearly $35B: TRM Labs
Almost half of all illicit crypto volume occurred on the TRON Blockchain, the report said.
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Mar 27, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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UN Says Tether Plays Major Role in Illicit Activity in East Asia; Stablecoin Issuer Hits Back
Tether said it was "disappointed" that the report had singled out its stablecoin, USDT.
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Jan 16, 2024 at 11:25 a.m. UTC
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White Supremacists Lean On Crypto, Says Anti-Defamation League Report on Extremists
The report says white supremacist groups are drawn to crypto funding, but the amounts are relatively small, and it doesn't make a case that digital assets are paying for illeg...
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Report Finds Less Illicit Crypto Activity in Nations With Full Licensing Regimes in 2023: TRM Labs
TRM Labs' analysis was published in a report Monday that reviewed 2023 global crypto policy in 21 jurisdictions which represent 70% of global crypto exposure.
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Crypto for Advisors: Cryptocurrency Transparency Truths vs. Myths
In this week's issue of Crypto for Advisors, Dawood Khan from Alix Partners discusses how on-chain analytics bring transparency to blockchain and cryptocurrency transactions.
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Top 3 Crypto Myths Tackled for Advisors
Christopher Jensen from Franklin Templeton tackles myths about crypto in today’s Crypto for Advisors newsletter.
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Sep 21, 2023 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
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Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic
Chainalysis and Elliptic have found that crypto is useful for crime, but that’s hardly an argument for banning it.
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Jun 1, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. UTC
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U.S. Treasury Poised to Release View on How DeFi Used in Illicit Finance
The department has reviewed decentralized finance’s role in such incidents as North Korean ransomware attacks, and will issue a risk assessment, a senior official said.
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Mar 14, 2023 at 8:05 p.m. UTC
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