International Anti-Money Laundering Working Group Will Develop the Standard

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1989 to initiate an initiative to combat money laundering (AML) by the Group of Seven (G7). Recently, the organization may establish a set of anti-money laundering standards applicable to virtual currency.

 

The organization’s chairman, Marshall Billingslea, is optimistic about the upcoming anti-money laundering standards revision seminar in October.

 

The working group has recently worked to reach a consensus on the urgent issues announced by the G20, and significant progress has been made in the past few weeks. Billingslea said that soon, the virtual currency anti-money laundering standards of all countries will reach an agreement. “We must establish a set of global standards for uniform application.”

 

The Financial Times reported that FATF Chairman and Assistant Secretary of State for the United States, Marshall Billingsler, said that the adoption of anti-money laundering standards in the field of cryptocurrency alike tron coin, bitcoin cash and neo coin, is the process of completing the debris and the process of finding up the missing gaps. And the international financial system has brought major loopholes.

 

The UK is currently discussing this topic, and members of the parliament have called for regulation of the “laissez-faire” cryptocurrency asset market. The Special Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the House of Lords stated that the regulatory framework is necessary to protect consumers who have risks due to the cryptocurrency assets, such as ethereum wallet.

 

The supervision of the central bank and the government, as well as an appropriate set of standards applicable to virtual currency, should address the use of cryptocurrencies by criminal groups and terrorist groups.

 

While recognizing that terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State, are increasingly adopting virtual currency, Billingsler realizes that digital assets are “a good opportunity” and that regulation cannot “slant too far in one direction or the other.” “In order for this basic technology of Bitcoin to “continue to develop.”

 

A report by Europol in February showed that the amount of money laundered by European criminals has reached $5.5 billion, accounting for 4% of the total amount of illegal smuggling. EU police agencies have called for a centralized system to mark cryptocurrency wallets associated with criminal activities to prevent them from being exchanged for legal tender.

 

As the rise of cryptocurrencies raises many challenges in anti-money laundering efforts, this underlying technology will become increasingly difficult to control. As decentralized cryptocurrency transactions may become mainstream, the Financial Action Task Force may need to meet again to fill the new “gap” as quickly as possible.