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Title: FinCEN Conducting 'Examinations' of Digital Currency Businesses
Post by: tokeweed on May 07, 2015, 02:00:07 AM
The inquisition begins.

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US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) director Jennifer Shasky Calvery said during a speech today that her agency is in the process of investigating businesses in the digital currency ecosystem.

Calvery gave the keynote address during the first day of the 2015 West Coast Anti-Money Laundering Forum in San Francisco. FinCEN later published the text of her speech, which acknowledged that “a series of supervisory examinations of businesses in the virtual currency industry” had begun.


Full article here http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-director-examiniation-digital-currency/ (http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-director-examiniation-digital-currency/)