Perianne Boring Talks Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Boot Camp Offered at TNABC
Perianne Boring is the president of the Digital Chamber of Commerce. The chamber will be hosting an Anti-Money Laundering Boot Camp at the North American Bitcoin Conference 2015 in Miami on January 16 and 17. Boring took time from her schedule to speak with CoinTelegraph about the boot camp and the importance of compliance with AML regulations for companies in the Bitcoin industry. CoinTelegraph: Please tell us where the idea came from to offer an anti-money laundering boot camp. What was your inspiration? Perianne Boring: We hear stories from companies about their efforts to put AML....
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The Chamber of Digital Commerce will hold a two-day anti-money laundering (AML) compliance boot camp for bankers, regulators and digital currency companies. The event will be in New York City from April 30 to May 1, with an optional workshop on May 2. The topic of compliance and regulations is a tough one for Bitcoin companies. AML Know-Your-Customer and OFAC regulations are difficult for large and established companies, as seen recently when PayPal was fined $7 million by the U. S. Treasury Department for processing illegal transactions from blacklisted persons. According to the president....
The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) kicked off this weekend with the surprise launch of the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), a new lobbying group that aims to advocate for smart bitcoin regulation in Washington, DC through a three-part strategy combining government relations, media education and grassroots outreach. Helmed by president and former Forbes columnist Perianne Boring, the CDC aspires to operate a $1.5m annual budget and will feature an advisory board composed of experienced regulators, former members of Congress and early Internet advocates. While the CDC's....
Perianne Boring graduated from the University of Florida during the height of the latest round of economic downturn and saw the results first hand in her native Lakeland. Since that time she has worked as a Congressional financial analyst and free market advocate and has written extensively on macroeconomics and consumer finance. Perianne also runs a popular personal blog called the Boring Bitcoin Report. Ms. Boring is a firm believer that cryptocurrency technologies have the potential to correct many of the problems inherent in a centralized economic system. CoinTelegraph: What are the....
Today marks the start of the highly-anticipated North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, and with that you can expect a slew of announcements to be made. One such announcement is the launch of the so-called Chamber of Digital Commerce, a new organization registered as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit. This will effectively allow the group to lobby in Washington, D. C., in addition to serving as a trade association of sorts. The group, which has secured backing from RRE Ventures and Tally Capital, is led by Perianne Boring. Boring is a former journalist and congressional staffer, and publishes....
This article has been updated with comment from Perianne Boring. The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) has revealed that it intends to form a political action committee (PAC) to help further the interests of the bitcoin industry in Washington, DC. The government affairs office, led by bitcoin advocate Perianne Boring, first filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) this month to create its committee. The PAC, as reported by The Hill, will enable the CDC to provide campaign donations to political candidates that support digital currency. Boring commented that the group is at the....