regulation

The market for cryptocurrency tax services is growing rapidly, and it is providing forward-thinking tax professionals with an opportunity to capture oversized profits.While we’ve seen the market cap of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies…

Today, November 14, 2018, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it has approved the application of NYDIG Execution LLC, a subsidiary of NYDIG LLC, for a virtual currency license and a money transmission…

Regulation has been a major talking point in the cryptocurrency sphere in 2018 - mainly due to the monumental crypto-craze in 2017.This has come to the fore in Europe, after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) updated its policy on…

In the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).This conversation lay largely dormant since the two brothers’ first…

In an apparent first, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of EtherDelta, Zachary Coburn, with running an “unregistered national securities exchange,” according to a press release from the…

Nov 04, 2018 at 15:07 // News Brazil’s tax authority is concerned over cryptocurrency-related problems, including money laundering and tax evasion. The institution has officially filed a proposal in…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases. The report details actions for 2018’s…

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has claimed that it will include crypto funds under its regulatory umbrella.The SFC issued a statement on November 1, 2018, laying out its new approach for regulating virtual…

“The GDPR, and more generally the classical principles of personal data protection, were conceived in a world where the management of data was centralized within specific entities. In this regard, the decentralized model of data…

Agents of the Indian government have met to formally discuss a possible ban on private cryptocurrency holdings in the nation.On October 30, 2018, the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) issued a press release detailing…