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Markets

Enforcing KYC, AML Laws Is Key to Reducing Ransomware Attacks: Task Force

Existing AML/KYC laws could reduce ransomware proliferation, but it would require an international effort.

The Ransomware Task Force report warned an international effort would be needed to properly combat a growing ransomware threat.

Finance

Crypto Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Says All Users Are Now Verified

After getting in hot water with U.S. regulators last year, the exchange has rolled out mandatory verification for all users.

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Policy

What Does It Cost to Become an FCA-Approved Exchange? EXMO Execs Explain

The U.K.-registered EXMO exchange is one of the many crypto startups to go through the FCA approval process. Execs detailed the work it took to get there.

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Finance

ShapeShift Is Going Full DeFi to Lose KYC Rules

Erik Voorhees’ ShapeShift is morphing into a decentralized exchange (DEX). It's losing the KYC restrictions at the same time.

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Policy

Democracy Demands a Say in the Future of Money

The U.S. Treasury’s decision to impose know-your-customer rules to private cryptocurrency wallets is flawed in more ways than one.

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Markets

Blockchain Bites: Hodl Hodl's No-KYC Bitcoin Lending, Voyager's Token Merging M&A Deal, Crypto's Reaction to PayPal

Hodl Hodl announced a no-KYC, P2P lending service. Reactions to PayPal's crypto market entrance. And a token-merging M&A deal.

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Finance

Bitcoin Hodlers Get a Lending Option With No KYC

Hodl Hodl is launching a peer-to-peer lending marketplace for hardcore bitcoiners

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Markets

Crypto Options Exchange Deribit to Require ID Verification for All Users by Year End: Report

Popular cryptocurrency options exchange Deribit will require all of its users to be ID verified before the end of this year under its revamped know-your-customer (KYC) policy.

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Finance

BitMEX Accelerates Mandatory ID Verification After Charges of Lax Anti-Money Laundering Controls

The exchange moved deadline for identity verification from February 2021 to November 2020.

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Markets

BitMEX to Mandate ID Verification for All Traders as Maverick Exchange Ends Wild Ways

The change comes with a six-month “grace period” ending in February.

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