Irish Banks Hail EU’s ‘Radical’ Anti-Money Laundering Push
Banks in Ireland have welcomed an upcoming reform of the European Union’s anti-money laundering regulations that will affect the crypto space. The Irish banking industry organization voiced support for the changes aimed at disrupting illicit transactions at the union level while calling them “radical.” New AML Body to Weed Out Suspicious Transactions in the EU, Irish Banks Say Financial institutions in Ireland have expressed their positive attitude towards intentions to reform the anti-money laundering mechanisms of the European Union, the Irish daily Independent....
Related News
It is now a criminal offense to operate a crypto firm in Ireland without registering with the Central Bank of Ireland. Ireland’s crypto businesses have become subject to regulatory oversight for the first time, with local digital asset firms now observing anti-money laundering guidelines set out by the European Union, or EU. The EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, or 5AMLD, was transposed into Irish Law on April 23, via the Criminal Justice Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Amendment Act of 2021.The legislation requires firms that operate with crypto assets and custodial....
Irish companies operating with crypto, and the firms servicing them, will have to adhere to AML and CFT for the first time starting next month. Irish lawmakers will impose an anti money laundering regime on crypto for the first time in AprilThe Central Bank of Ireland has extended the nation’s anti-money laundering, or AML, and countering the financing of terrorism, or CTF, guidelines to apply to Bitcoin and crypto assets from April.Starting next month, Ireland’s crypto asset service providers must comply with AML rules and other regulations for the first time. The new rules are a result....
A pair of entrepreneurs has developed a solution to help banks reduce the risks involved in remittances. Route Trading Ltd., launched by Musa Jammeh and Taimoor Iqbal, will introduce Money Router, a software solution, to London, U.K. banks to prevent illicit money transfers. Money Router, to be introduced in September, is designed to improve the safety of global payments, enabling financial institutions to set parameters in accordance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing regulations. Developed in London by a team led by a compliance officer employed at a major U.K. bank,....
A group of EU nations have reportedly been lobbying to entrust oversight of the crypto space to a new anti-money laundering (AML) agency. Behind the move are concerns that companies dealing with digital assets can be engaged in the processing of illicit funds. Germany Leads Push to Place Crypto Firms Under EU Anti-Money Laundering Supervision Several EU member states, led by Germany, have been urging the European Union to grant a planned anti-money laundering (AML) watchdog powers to oversee businesses in the crypto sector. Quoting knowledgeable sources, Bloomberg revealed these nations....
Herman Neglyad, the deputy of the Russian anti-money laundering body, Rosfinmonitoring, has said his organization will monitor cryptocurrency transactions that involve the conversion from crypto to fiat. Neglyad made this revelation during a recent meeting of the State Duma Committee on financial markets. Banks Already Cooperating According to a Russian news site, Regnum, the anti-money laundering body is already getting cooperation from banks. “Banks have already begun to pay attention to exchange operations, that is, when they see that an operation has come after the exchange of....