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FRANCE INCREASINGLY OPEN TO DIGITAL SECTOR
- 8 November 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Cryptovalues News, EU Law, World News
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France will revise its tax rules on cryptocurrencies next year in an effort to continue its neuralgic role in the blockchain sector, and it will not do so by faithfully replicating what is planned in the equities sector. This was stated by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. Slightly contradictory are the words of the French
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DIGITAL EURO, SEVERAL STEPS FORWARD
- 20 September 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde, EU Law
Europe is working on the design of a central bank digital euro (CBDC). The main motivation is to maintain the role of central bank money in the economy, even if it is ‘threatened by the digital revolution’, according to French Central Bank President Galhau. The recommendations of the Bank for International Settlements, which has long
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PART TWO OF THE ‘DIGITAL EURO’ PROJECT BEGINS
- 1 August 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde, EU Law
From March 2020 to the end of last year, the French Central Bank conducted nine experiments that helped demonstrate how CBDCs could be used for wholesale payments. These involved cross-border and cross-currency payments as well as the settlement of securities. A year ago, simulations were started by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Banque de
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COINBASE ALSO REGISTERED WITH THE OAM
- 19 July 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, EU Law, World News
With sixty days to register with the new ‘virtual currency exchange’ registry set up at the OAM, Coinbase announced that it has received approval from Italian regulators to offer cryptocurrency services. In a statement released on 18 July, the US exchange said it will provide cryptocurrency services to Italian residents, adding: “The new requirement implemented
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THE US’S LONG-AWAITED NEWS FOR THE PHYSICAL ETF ON BTC COMES FROM EUROPE
- 8 July 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Cryptovalues News, EU Law, World News
It makes one smile, but while there has been yet another rejections by the US Securities and Exchange Commission of Grayscale’s Bitcoin spot ETF for turning its trust into a Bitcoin Spot ETF, in Europe Jacobi Asset Management will launch the Jacobi Bitcoin ETF on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange. It has to be said, however,
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NEW EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVES FOR ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING IN CRYPTO
- 6 July 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, EU Law
This has been talked about for some time, and at the end of June, important news emerged from the European Union, which regulated anti-money laundering (AML) regulations for cryptocurrencies that will oblige companies to verify the identity of clients. This is a temporary draft to update the existing AML rules for cryptocurrency service providers and
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FOURTH GERMAN BANK APPLIES FOR CRYPTO LICENCE
- 22 April 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, EU Law
In the USA, the last few months have seen new crypto entries from all the major banks, who, prompted by their customers’ demands to offer services and investments related to cryptocurrencies in a regulated and secure manner, have begun to broaden their focus and have set a series of rules to allow their customers access
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CRYTPO LICENCE TO A PORTUGUESE BANK
- 21 April 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: EU Law, World News
Bison Bank leads the way: it has become the first monetary organisation authorised by the Central Bank to provide cryptocurrency trading opportunities to customers. This is an important step for Lisbon, which with the granting of the first crypto licence to a bank in the country continues on its path to becoming one of the
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“TRAVEL RULE” EXTENDED TO CRYPTO ASSET SERVICE PROVIDERS
- 4 April 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde, EU Law
A counter-proposal by the Consortium CryptoValues to the proposed amendments to the Transfer Funds Regulations (“TFR”) that will extend the “travel rule” to the crypto asset service providers On 20.7.2021, the European Commission’s AML package included a revision of the Transfer Funds Regulations (“TFR”) (i.e. Proposal on “Regulation of The European Parliament and of the
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EUBLOCKCHAIN PUBLISHED A STUDY ON THE LAST DEVELOPMENTS OF EU BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS
- 24 November 2020
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde, EU Law
To support Europe’s efforts to develop a harmonized framework across the EU member states about crypto-assets and their underlying technology (Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology, DLT), it is therefore important to study the current level of regulatory and market maturity in each of them. The EUBlockchain Observatory and Forum has undertaken a study on capturing
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