United States

    Crypto / Digital Assets

    Fed Vice Chair Calls for Swift Action on Crypto Regulation

    By Editors | 11/07/2022

    This is the right time to establish which crypto activities are permissible for regulated entities and under what constraints, Lael Brainard said.

    Market Infrastructure

    ARRC Issues Transition Guidance for Legacy LIBOR Cash Products

    By Editors | 11/07/2022

    The LIBOR Legacy Playbook will help market participants transition legacy LIBOR cash products. Refinitiv will publish fallback rates based on the CME Term SOFR rates in September.

    Crypto / Digital Assets

    US Treasury Outlines Approach to International Engagement on Crypto

    By Editors | 11/07/2022

    The US will promote the adoption and implementation of international standards while ensuring a “coordinated message” and limiting duplication of work.

    AML / KYC

    No Specific Customer Type is Automatically Higher Risk: US Agencies

    By Manesh Samtani | 09/07/2022

    Banks should use a risk-based approach when managing customer risk, and not decline to provide banking services to entire categories of customers.

    Crypto / Digital Assets

    IOSCO Outlines Planned Work to Address Crypto Market Risks

    By Editors | 07/07/2022

    The roadmap will initially focus IOSCO’s Fintech Taskforce on work to analyse and respond to market integrity and investor protection concerns.

    Enforcement

    CFTC Fines BNP, JPM for Swap Reporting Violations

    By Editors | 06/07/2022

    BNP Paribas agreed to pay USD 6 million for failing to correctly report over three million swap transactions. JPMorgan was fined USD 850,000.

    Enforcement

    Former Archegos Employee Sues Firm Over Deferred Bonuses

    By Manesh Samtani | 06/07/2022

    Archegos employees were “coerced” to invest their bonus money into the firm through a deferred compensation plan, which evaporated when the company collapsed last March.

    Crypto / Digital Assets

    Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Files for Bankruptcy

    By Manesh Samtani | 05/07/2022

    The bankruptcy filing came three days after Three Arrows entered into liquidation in the British Virgin Islands.

    AML / KYC

    US Bill Set to Bring Gatekeepers into Scope of AML Rules

    By Editors | 05/07/2022

    The Enablers Act would require financial advisers, lawyers, art and antiquities traders to perform due diligence on their clients and file SARs.

    Enforcement

    US DOJ Files Charges Against Six Individuals Over Crypto Frauds

    By Editors | 04/07/2022

    Criminal charges were filed in four separate cases of alleged crypto-related fraud, including the largest known NFT scheme charged to date.

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