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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Rhode Island enacts new virtual currency kiosk provisions

On June 23, the governor of Rhode Island signed into law HB 5121 which grants Rhode Island new currency transmission laws to regulate and establish new licensing, disclosure and anti-fraud requirements for virtual currency...more

Ankura

Green Gold and Shadow Networks: Financial Crime in the Illegal Wildlife Trade

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What does the silent extinction of endangered species reveal about the hidden corridors of global finance? As financial transactions and environmental health become increasingly linked, a troubling reality emerges: illegal...more

Secretariat

Global Financial and Economic Crime Outlook: Introducing the Secretariat Economic Crime Index 2025

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The global financial landscape is under siege by increasingly sophisticated financial and economic crimes. Money laundering, fraud, corruption, and market abuse pose ever-growing risks, compounded by rapid advancements in AI,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile

The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish an office to administer and maintain control of custodial accounts collectively known as the “United States Digital Asset Stockpile,” capitalized with all digital assets owned by...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - February 2025

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US Crypto Companies Expand Via New Licenses, Products, Integrations - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced that it has “secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration from Argentina’s...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Newsletter - January 24, 2025

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Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

PLI Anti-Money Laundering Conference to Address Key Issues in BSA/AML (UPDATED)

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I am very pleased to co-chair again the Practicing Law Institute’s 2024 Anti-Money Laundering Conference on May 23, 2024, starting at 9 a.m. in New York City (the event also will be virtual).  I am also really fortunate to be...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd Forum on Digital Assets Compliance: AML, Sanctions and Regulatory Oversight - October 17th - 18th, New York, NY

With so many new, emerging risks coming to the forefront, ACI is excited to announce our Digital Assets Compliance: AML, Sanctions and Regulatory Oversight. Unlike other conferences, this highly anticipated event stands apart...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

The Basel AML Index 2021: Virtual Assets and Money Laundering. A Guest Blog.

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Global AML Compliance Faces Challenges Relating to Regulator Expertise, the Travel Rule, Decentralized Finance, and “Regulator Shopping”...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Cryptocurrency: Wild West or Wall Street? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 22]

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Every day, the mainstream media and social media are filled with references to cryptocurrency. Depending on who you ask, it’s either simply the next way to spend your money, or it’s a haven for criminal activity. In this...more

Cozen O'Connor

The Department of Justice Announces the First-of-its-Kind Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

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On October 8, 2020, Attorney General William Barr announced the release of a Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework produced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Cyber-Digital Task Force. The 83-page framework is intended to help...more

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Trade-Based Money Laundering: GAO Report Stresses Enforcement Challenges

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On January 29, 2020, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released the results of a study which the GAO conducted on trade-based money laundering, or TBML, entitled “Countering Illicit Finance and Trade:...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New FinCEN Cryptocurrency Guidance Clarifies Applicability of Anti-Money Laundering Regulations to Virtual Currency Business...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is the U.S. Treasury Department bureau charged with monitoring financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing and...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

State-Level Legislation Anticipates Wide-Spread Business Use of Blockchain

On a daily basis, companies are announcing new developments on the adoption of blockchain in core business operations. However, many of these use cases present unique legal issues. In order to provide some clarity on some of...more

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