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Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations are tightening worldwide, with crypto exchanges and DeFi platforms facing increased scrutiny. AML news covers new compliance requirements, enforcement actions, and how blockchain analytics are being used to detect illicit financial activity. Stay informed on how regulations impact crypto businesses and users.
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Every time you send crypto from one exchange to another above a certain amount, your identifying information may travel with it, shared between the platforms behind the scenes. That is the Travel Rule, a decades-old banking standard now reshaping crypto.…
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India’s FIU asks three major exchanges for crypto OTC trade records above $10,000, targeting beneficial ownership from January 2026 onward.
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Ireland has identified crypto assets as a “very significant” money laundering and terrorism financing risk and has committed to introducing industry standards governing crypto-related sources of funds by the second half of 2027. According to Ireland’s Department of Finance, the…
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Zimbabwe has placed cryptocurrency firms under Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe oversight through new anti-money laundering rules. Statutory Instrument 99 of 2026 places crypto businesses under the RBZ unit that handles financial crime controls. The rules require firms that buy, sell,…
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Seoul police booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over alleged job favors tied to lawmaker Kim Byung-kee’s son in Korea today
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Hyperliquid and Paradigm ask Treasury to narrow GENIUS Act AML rules they say could push regulated stablecoins away from open DeFi networks.
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Chainalysis says 47% of 2026 crypto entrants match 2020’s strictest alerting standards, but indirect monitoring gaps still remain for firms.
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Cross-chain compliance gaps at blockchain bridges are crypto’s most dangerous AML blind spot, ThetaRay CEO Brad Levy says. Compliance teams monitoring crypto transactions lose the trail the moment assets cross a blockchain bridge. Brad Levy, CEO of ThetaRay, calls this…
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South Korea’s crypto sector warns AML changes could lift suspicious reports to 5.4m yearly, as DAXA urges clearer rules for exchanges today.
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Crypto exchange Bithumb will have to pay a fine of 36.8 billion won, about $24.5 million, after it was found to be in violation of South Korea’s Anti-Money Laundering rules. According to a local media report, South Korea’s Financial Intelligence…
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The United States Department of Justice has ordered peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful to pay a fine of $4 million for criminal conduct involving failure to implement proper anti-money laundering checks. A statement released by the DOJ, Paxful has pleaded guilty…
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Turkmenistan has legalized cryptocurrency mining and trading after a new law came into effect on Jan. 1. The landlocked Central Asian nation, which holds roughly 10% of the global natural gas reserves, is looking to expand beyond its heavy reliance…
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Slowly and surely, the tokenization of global financial markets is happening, and the regulatory and taxation frameworks are developing alongside.
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Compliance brings traditional market rules to crypto, but it doesn’t make the compliant project invulnerable or risk-free.
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Canada’s financial watchdog has levied its largest-ever penalty against a crypto firm. Vancouver’s Cryptomus faces a $126 million fine for failing to report more than 1,000 suspicious transactions linked to darknet markets and terrorist financing in a single month. In…
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On Oct. 20, 2025, Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, took to X to urge the U.S. government to fight cryptocurrency-related crimes using blockchain. “When bad guys innovate in financial crime, good guys need innovation to keep pace,” said Grewal.…
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