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Swiss FINMA Reduces Minimum Crypto Transaction Threshold Requiring Identification to $1K
The Switzerland Financial Services Authority (FINMA) has enforced new rules that lower the threshold for the provision of identification when ...

Swiss Crypto-Focused Bank SEBA Expands Services to Nine More Countries Including Singapore and Hong Kong
Switzerland-based crypto friendly bank SEBA, an integrated bank for digital and traditional assets and licensed by the Swiss supervisory authority ...

Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority FINMA Risk Monitor Report Says Blockchain Technology Increases the Risk of Money-Laundering
The growing interest in blockchain technology and crypto assets can increase money laundering risks according to the first 2019 risk ...

Swiss Financial Supervisor FINMA Boss isn’t Worried of Libra, but Crypto Projects Being Developed Secretly Give Him Shivers
The announcement of Facebook’s Libra project awhile back threw the crypto sector and regulators alike into a panic mode with ...

Libra Association is Seeking a Payment System License from Switzerland’s Financial Watchdog FINMA
The Libra Association, the non-profit organization behind Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra, intends to seek a payment license from a lead ...

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) Gives Two Crypto Firms a Banking and Securities Dealer License
The regulatory recommendations put forth by the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force FATF shock the crypto sector, but regulators are ...

A Boost on Blockchain Companies through the New FinTech Licence from Swiss Regulators
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has made an announcement on their platform allowing innovative financial companies to apply ...

Dukascopy Bank advances in the tests of its operations with cryptocurrencies
Despite advances in the field of criticism, there are still many skeptical investors and brokers with respect to payments in ...

Switzerland Rolls Out ICO Guidelines
The Swiss financial watchdog Financial Market Supervisory Authority has published a set of rules which the agency says will be ...