K2 Integrity’s Justina Rousseau, senior managing director, and Elizabeth Severinovskaya, managing director, will join Arnold & Porter’s Kevin M. Toomey, partner and chair of the Financial Services practice, and Erik Walsh,...more
On 21 March 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer, from its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List),...more
3/25/2025
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Blockchain ,
Chevron Deference ,
Compliance ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Delisting ,
Digital Assets ,
Economic Sanctions ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
National Security ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
SCOTUS ,
SDN List ,
U.S. Treasury
Ask any centralized cryptocurrency firm to name one of their biggest priorities or challenges—and then count the number of times they mention bank partnerships. For crypto firms, the loss of, or failure to acquire, a bank...more
1/16/2025
/ Bank Secrecy Act ,
Blockchain ,
Compliance ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
FCC ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinCEN ,
Governance Standards ,
Internal Controls ,
Know Your Customers ,
OCC ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Service Level Agreements
Summary of What Has Happened and What Is Yet to Come -
On 19 October 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), pursuant to...more
11/14/2023
/ Convertible Virtual Currencies (CVCs) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Money Laundering ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Patriot Act ,
Popular ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
Terrorist Financing ,
Transparency ,
Virtual Currency
On 07 June 2023, K2 Integrity hosted a webinar on the state of cryptocurrency and digital assets in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. A discussion was held with Bryan Stirewalt, senior managing director at K2...more
6/15/2023
/ Analytics ,
Anonymity ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Asset Class ,
Bank Secrecy Act ,
Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Comptroller ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement ,
FATF ,
Financial Stability Board ,
Investors ,
OCC ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Scams ,
Settlement ,
Stablecoins