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The EBA issues ‘travel rule’ guidance to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing in transfers of funds and crypto assets

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The Regulation recasts Regulation (EU) 2015/847 and brings the EU’s legal framework in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s standards by extending the obligation to include information about the originator and beneficiary to CASPs – the so-called ‘travel rule’.

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The EBA consults on new Guidelines on preventing the abuse of funds and certain crypto-assets transfers for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes

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The recast brings the EU’s legal framework in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s standards by extending the obligation to include information about the originator and beneficiary to CASPs – the so-called “travel rule”.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Challengers And Backlogs

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The plans will begin to take effect in early 2017, so we ’ ll see more of how this develops in the new year. The 500-page, $5,000 applications are an attempt to offer an unequivocal legal framework for businesses to exchange in bitcoin. Currently, 15 applications are pending. Washington, D.C.,

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Goldman Sachs began working to automate its own IPO process after it found that around half of the 127 IPO steps it identified could be done by computers — for example, making calls to compliance, making calls to legal, delivering price updates to clients, preparing the company’s audited financials, and so on. In 2017, startups raised $5.6B