The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to place particular emphasis on digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, coins, and tokens, in the forthcoming year. The SECs Office of Compliance...

Two U.S. lawmakers, Reps. Warren Davidson and Darren Soto, have introduced a new bill that seeks to exclude cryptocurrencies and certain other digital assets from the definition of a security, CoinDesk reported. The...

The UK Treasury Committee has published the responses of the government and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to its crypto-assets report. In September, the Treasury Committee published a report in which it made a...

The Australian Tax Office has issued warnings to the public to disclose their profits from cryptocurrency trading in their annual returns, Australian Financial Review reported. Last month, the ATO published Tax...

Japans Financial Services Agency (FSA) is going to place the names of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under a single category crypto-assets, The Japan News reported referring to a report from The Yomiuri Shimbun. An...

The Federal Council, a seven-member cabinet making up the Swiss government, believes that the countrys legal framework needs some selective adjustments to better deal with emerging technologies, including...

The European Union is going to strengthen the rules to combat fraud and counterfeiting of non-cash means of payment. The current rules on criminalisation of non-cash payment fraud, which dates back to 2001, do not...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has noted the efforts by the UK government to implement a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchange providers. The FATF last week announced that it conducted an assessment...

Two U.S. congressmen from Florida and North Carolina have introduced bipartisan bills that aim to prevent cryptocurrency price manipulation. Congressman Darren Soto and Ted Budd have introduced the bills that direct the...

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today issued a joint statement on the regulation of digital assets in the country. The statement follows recent comments from Finance Minister Lim...