FinCEN Withdraws Proposed Unhosted Wallet and Crypto Mixing Rules
FinCEN has withdrawn its 2020 unhosted wallet proposal and its 2023 plan to treat international crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.
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FinCEN has withdrawn its 2020 unhosted wallet proposal and its 2023 plan to treat international crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.
Read article →The SEC has proposed amending Rule 17a-7 so registered funds can again cross trade most fixed-income securities, with new CCO reviews and reporting.
Read article →At OKX Now, OKX set out tokenised US stocks with ICE under an SEC exemption, the OKX Money stablecoin app and AI trading tools.
Read article →Stablecoin payments firm Rain has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank that would hold custody, manage stablecoin reserves and issue US dollar stablecoins.
Read article →Chainlink says Open Standard has standardised on it as an official data oracle for Open USD, the stablecoin backed by Stripe, Mastercard and Visa that went live on 30 September.
Read article →Fiserv's digital asset platform is live with financial institution clients, starting with Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin for more than 90 banks and credit unions.
Read article →FinCEN proposed barring US financial institutions from transfers involving the A7 Network's Sub-Agents, issued an alert, and OFAC sanctioned A7 as a transnational criminal organisa...
Read article →CFTC staff have extended their Brexit no-action positions for UK swap dealers and 25 UK trading venues to 31 December 2027 in Staff Letter 26-28, while UK comparability work contin...
Read article →The SEC has proposed custody rules that would let investment advisers and regulated funds self-custody crypto assets under conditions and use state trust companies as custodians.
Read article →The SEC's Division of Examinations has published a handbook setting out each stage of an exam, from firm selection to the disposition letter, with key deadlines.
Read article →CFTC staff have issued a no-action position allowing providers of passive trading software to operate without registering as introducing brokers, broadening relief previously avail...
Read article →The SEC has issued a temporary, conditional exemption allowing Tokenized Securities Venues to trade tokenised NMS stock through permissioned automated market makers and liquidity p...
Read article →The US SEC has proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the rule that lets eligible shareholders place proposals in a company’s proxy statement, arguing it reaches beyond the agency’s statu...
Read article →U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan have filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize about $61 million in cryptocurrency they allege are laundered proceeds of sanctioned Iranian oil sale...
Read article →Thirty-nine US state bankers associations announced BankChain Alliance on 25 August 2026, an industry-owned blockchain network targeting a 2027 launch that the Alliance says will l...
Read article →On 26 August 2026, OFAC designated Italy-based data-hosting association Autistici Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, alongside Palest...
Read article →On 7 August 2026, OFAC sanctioned two Iran-based crypto exchanges, Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether, and a UAE-based network organiser, Siavash Kayvanpour, that Treasury says helpe...
Read article →In its largest single Iran action to date, the US Treasury has for the first time named digital assets as a sanctionable sector of Iran's economy. The sweep designates a cyber grou...
Read article →The US Justice Department has secured a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance over alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, one of the larges...
Read article →The US CFTC has proposed changes to registration rules for commodity pool operators (CPOs) and commodity trading advisors (CTAs), set out in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking amendin...
Read article →The US SEC has proposed a rulebook called "Regulation Crypto Assets" that would create a tailored securities offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto asset...
Read article →The OCC has granted World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval to organise as an uninsured national trust bank for the USD1 stablecoin, attaching seven conditions...
Read article →FinCEN has ordered UBS Financial Services to pay $125 million, its largest broker dealer penalty for Bank Secrecy Act violations, after the firm admitted willfully failing to monit...
Read article →The SEC has cancelled the 14 August open meeting at which it was to consider proposing a tailored offering regime for certain crypto assets, according to a Sunshine Act notice. The...
Read article →SEC issued a no-action letter letting Franklin Templeton’s U.S. registered funds hold shares of its blockchain-based OnChain money fund, the BENJI token (FOBXX), as a cash-manageme...
Read article →New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin has written to Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Gemini Titan, launching an investigation into whether the platforms' advertising in the ci...
Read article →The OCC's Comptroller has signalled that digital-asset firms should have a route to a national bank charter — but it is a statement of posture, not a rule change, and the normal ch...
Read article →On 11 August 2026, the US Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a definitive final rule permanently removing Beneficial Ownership Inform...
Read article →The SEC has charged adviser Adit Ventures, its CEO Eric Munson, and affiliated general partners over undisclosed principal markups and the unauthorised pledging of client shares in...
Read article →With U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune filing cloture on H.R. 3633 in the early hours of 8 August 2026, Washington officially set the stage for a critical legislative showdown...
Read article →Wise Group's shares fell after the US OCC rejected its national trust bank charter application, citing significant supervisory and compliance concerns and AML/CFT deficiencies that...
Read article →US financial regulators have proposed a rewrite of the rules governing bank anti-money laundering programmes, raising the legal standard from one that is merely "reasonably designe...
Read article →The United States' revised Basel III proposal would apply a capital charge to committed credit lines that a bank can cancel at any time without condition, bringing a capital cost t...
Read article →The United States' revised Basel III proposal largely bypasses one of the Basel Committee's most significant post-crisis reforms: the output floor.
Read article →A digital-asset market-structure bill has cleared the US Senate Banking Committee, which voted 15-9 on 14 May 2026 to advance the measure after months of negotiation.
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