[2017-08-21] DCEBrief - Australia Moves to Strengthen AML Laws, Regulate Crypto

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Australia Moves to Strengthen AML Laws, Regulate Crypto

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) announced several weeks ago that it was bringing a lawsuit against Commonwealth Bank based on some 53,700 violations of the nation’s anti-money-laundering and terrorist financing prevention laws. Late this week, the government announced that it is proposing new reforms designed to strengthen compliance with those laws – including new regulations that will directly affect digital currency exchanges.

https://dcebrief.com/australia-moves-to-strengthen-aml-laws-regulate-crypt

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Australia is also one of the pioneer countries in the acceptation of the digital currency, Bitcoin. The had a recent evolution on the regulation of the crypto-currencies markets. This next week new laws will be in discussion on the Australian parlament to fight the money laundering inside the country. If the new laws are approved there will be a new agency regulating the financial sector, with the power of control the crypto-currencies markets.