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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

While vIBANs offer innovation in payment systems, they introduce risks like money laundering due to insufficient oversight. Payment Service Providers must strengthen due diligence, monitoring, and collaboration with regulators to address these risks. This leads to inadequate due diligence. What’s next?

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Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act examined: A guide to avoiding failure-to-prevent fraud measures

The Payments Association

The Home Office outlines six key principles: tone from the top, due diligence, risk assessment, proportionate procedures, monitoring/review, and communication/training. Due diligence : Ensuring employees and third parties adhere to anti-fraud policies. Monitoring and review: Regularly updating fraud prevention measures.

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APAC Sees 23% Decline in Crypto Fraud

Fintech News

Education also plays a key role, with leading universities including the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Management University (SMU), offering specialized blockchain programs. Similarly, Hong Kong supports crypto innovation through a highly advanced digital infrastructure and strong cybersecurity measures.

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Navigating legal uncertainty: How the Digital Assets Bill could impact PSPs

The Payments Association

However, PSPs must ensure their systems and processes support this capability, which may involve implementing blockchain analytics tools and strengthening compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regulations. This also positions them as thought leaders in the sector.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

CB Insights

Blockchains are becoming a key enabler of this digital transformation (in a similar way to how the emerging tech is disrupting other long-established industries like banking and insurance ). GET the 47-page blockchain TRENDS report. Why blockchain tech could benefit the real estate industry. Table of Contents. Challenges.

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Bitcoin Daily: Signal Messaging App Testing Crypto Payments; Gemini Adds 20 Tokens To Exchange; SIA, WizKey Partner For Credit Market Based On Blockchain

PYMNTS

Signal is exploring the idea of adding cryptocurrency payments into its messaging app by integrating MobileCoin , a cryptocurrency supported by the Stellar blockchain, Platformer reported. MobileCoin complements the privacy-focused app in that it is “more resistant to surveillance,” according to a 2017 Wired report.

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U.S. Government Wants To Use Blockchain To Help In Disaster Relief

PYMNTS

Department of Defense, blockchain has “a lot of potential” to help the way troops respond to disaster relief. Talk about blockchain, and you’ll hear experts comparing it to transforming trust or transactions in the same way the internet changed communication.”. We’re doing our due diligence.”.