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Coinbase has urged the U.S. Department of the Treasury to modernize the nation’s anti-money-laundering (AML) frameworks, arguing that existing rules no longer reflect the realities of a digital financial ecosystem. In its October 2025 response to the Treasury’s Request for Comment on Innovative Methods to Detect Illicit Activity in Digital Assets, the exchange positioned itself at the heart of an evolving debate over how regulators and the crypto industry can collaborate to s

Serbia’s Ministry of Finance has drawn the attention of compliance professionals across Europe as it moves forward with plans to develop a nationwide digital asset surveillance capability. The initiative centers on a central monitoring system designed to absorb public blockchain data, enrich it with intelligence on entities, and cross-reference it with reports from regulated institutions. This integrated approach could redefine how suspicious financial activity is detected an

Despite being blacklisted in 2022 and repeatedly pursued by regulators and investigators, Garantex and its network of spin-offs have continued to move vast sums across borders. Between 2019 and 2025, blockchain analytics trace approximately $96 billion in transactions to entities linked to Garantex, with at least $1.3 billion directly associated with criminal activity. These flows were not isolated occurrences but part of a sophisticated, parallel payment ecosystem engineered

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report highlighting attempts within the crypto industry to circumvent newly...

From the market turbulence at the start of the year to the explosive summer rally fueled by institutional investments, ETFs, and...

Money laundering has long been one of the greatest risks facing financial innovation, and the emergence of central bank digital...

A group of leading European banks is planning to launch a new euro-denominated stablecoin, aiming to bring crypto-averse investors in the...

KuCoin is once again in the regulatory spotlight after Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, imposed a CA$19,552,000 penalty on...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have carried out the country’s largest cryptocurrency seizure to date, recovering more than C$56...

The latest notice to banking organizations in New York has intensified regulatory scrutiny over how virtual currency activity intersects...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced a wide-ranging consultation on whether cryptocurrency companies should be...

Malta has voiced opposition to a joint proposal from France, Italy, and Austria that would hand the European Securities and Markets...

France has issued a stark warning that it may move to block the passporting rights of crypto firms across the European Union unless...

Firms that have built their business models around accumulating and holding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now enduring sharp...

Even after being sanctioned in 2022 and repeatedly struck by regulators and investigative agencies, Garantex and its offshoots have...

A cryptocurrency launched by the Trump family has entered public trading, instantly valuing the holdings of the U.S. president and his...

Authorities from 18 African nations, together with the United Kingdom, have detained more than 1,200 individuals connected to cybercrime...

In a sweeping enforcement action that has stunned the digital crime landscape, federal investigators have executed a record-breaking...

UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange Lykke has permanently closed its doors following a catastrophic hack that siphoned off $23 million,...

The intensifying sanctions against cryptocurrency exchanges Garantex and Grinex have emerged as a pivotal case in the evolution of...