The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has cautioned that financial services provided by giant companies like Alibaba, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Tencent could come with new risks for the banking sector as well as...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will start auditing taxpayers who own crypto-assets, according to Bloomberg. As per the report, the IRS has established a list of taxpayers who have failed or underreported their...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will focus on combating money laundering and terrorism financing by strengthening cryptocurrency regulations for its member nations. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin...

Russia is reportedly considering permitting cryptocurrency trading, although a final decision is yet to be made, Deputy Minister of Finance Alexi Moiseyev revealed on Friday as per a report by Interfax. According to the...

The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), a Belgian watchdog, has recently released a report documenting financial crimes notifications it received in 2018. In the report, the agency received a total of 2,066...

Blockchain is considered useful for a lot of things and helping to curb economic disasters was just added to this long list. Regulators in Brazil are now thinking of turning to the decentralized ledger technology in the...

Fisco, the firm that took over the Zaif crypto exchange company after it became the victim of theft via hackers, is now in hot legal water. The Financial Service Agency (FSA) of Japan has deemed it to be in violation of...

When Facebook announced that it was launching a cryptocurrency of its own, it created giant ripples of concern all throughout the world. Now that Libra is here, France has taken immediate action and created a task force...

In a recent unsealing of complaints against a Swedish citizen who is accused of committing fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing the extradition of Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson. Karlsson, his firm Eastern Metal...

The Department of Federal Revenue of Brazil (RFB) on Wednesday published new rules for cryptocurrency exchanges, Cointelegraph reported. The new rules are primarily aimed at identifying tax fraud and would require...

The United States Senate Banking Committee will conduct a hearing on Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency project on July 16, according to Market Watch. The hearing titled Examining Facebooks Proposal Digital Currency and...

Russia will soon join the list of countries that have adopted cryptocurrency legislation. The recent development comes on the heels of recent reports that suggest that Russians might be responsible for a huge crypto theft....

It would appear that Malaysia is looking towards the future with bright eyes with the recent announcement of the new Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) project. This new initiative is aimed at bringing in some...

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has included crypto-assets and blockchain technology in its priorities over the next three years. The CSA last week published its Business Plan for 2019-2022, which sets out...

It would seem that Iceland is once again ahead of most developed countries in what it is trying to achieve with its digital currency and blockchain. This time, the nations Financial Supervisory Authority has given the...