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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…
Opinion
Slowly and surely, the tokenization of global financial markets is happening, and the regulatory and taxation frameworks are developing alongside.
Opinion
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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Australia will grant its financial intelligence agency, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Center, new powers to crack down on the third-largest crypto ATM market in the world. New regulations are being drafted that would grant AUSTRAC the power to…
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Cryptocurrency exchange OKX is among the first to take action against funds tied to the Huione Group, after it was designated a primary money laundering concern by U.S. authorities, effectively cutting it off from the American financial system. “Huione Group…
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Binance is finally making progress with its South Korea re-entry after over two years of delay, as authorities have reopened their review of the exchange’s long-stalled takeover of local crypto exchange Gopax. Local media reports on Oct. 14 claim that…
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The U.S. government is demonstrating respect for privacy and prefers stablecoins over central bank-issued digital assets. President Donald Trump restricted the development of CBDCs, citing privacy concerns. However, the Treasury Department and the Bank of International Settlements are already exploring…
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