Bitcoin Digital Currency Money Laundering 
PYMNTS
JANUARY 14, 2021
Bitcoin is about to get even more scrutiny by regulators, on a global stage. As reported by Reuters this week, Lagarde said at a conference sponsored by the newswire that bitcoin should be regulated — worldwide. The comments come against a backdrop where bitcoin’s price action has been volatile — to put it mildly.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 4, 2019
For China: Digital currency, yes. But not bitcoin. But not bitcoin. The price of bitcoin, that marquee name in cryptocurrencies, has plummeted in the last several weeks, down roughly 20 percent at this writing to a recent $7,400, where the price had been more than $9,400 a month ago. Blockchain?
PYMNTS
JANUARY 29, 2019
He also deposited 230 bitcoins ($1.8 million) onto another cryptocurrency exchange and tried to withdraw the money through a bitcoin ATM. In other news, bitcoin prices fell again on Monday (Jan. 28) to $3,443, its lowest level since mid-December. It’s a huge disappointment; it neither came in terms of price or calendar.
PYMNTS
JUNE 10, 2020
The Bank of Ghana continues to consider the creation of a digital currency, GhanaWeb reported. Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari, the bank’s first deputy governor, reportedly said during a digital workshop that the bank remains steadfast in facilitating innovation and piloting ideas like a central bank cryptocurrency.
Payments Source
JULY 14, 2017
India is considering tracking digital currencies like bitcoin through the central bank and capital markets regulator along with intelligence agencies to monitor money laundering and terrorist financing, people with the knowledge of the matter said.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
will be required to comply with regulatory standards to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Whether it’s bitcoin, Ethereum, Libra, our message is the same to all of these companies: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism has to be built into your design from the get-go,” she said.
PYMNTS
MARCH 16, 2020
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent firm of Bakkt, had first made it known in the summer of 2018 that Starbucks was eyeing the retail use of digital currency payments. The Bank of Russia, however, reportedly supports the idea of digital financial assets and had gone so far as having an experimental tokenization project.
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