
Australia
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8 August, 2023
Australia’s Bendigo Bank bans high-risk digital currency payments for 2.3M clients
Bendigo Bank admitted that the ban would also affect genuine payments, but it’s a risk it must take following similar...
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8 August, 2023
Australian watchdog charges after eToro over high-risk CFDs offering
The ASIC says that eToro offered its highly-leveraged CFDs—which include digital assets—to retail investors without trading experience, with 77% of...
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21 July, 2023
Australia revokes FTX subsidiary’s license
Nine months after it imploded, ASIC revoked the FTX Australia license but will allow it to offer limited services for...
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19 July, 2023
National Australia Bank bans payments to ‘high risk’ digital asset exchanges to curb scams
Binance may be among the targets of the new crackdown, with NAB saying that half of all scams in Australia...
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10 June, 2023
Australia’s largest bank blocks payments to digital asset exchanges
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced that it’s blocking ‘certain’ payments to some exchanges to curb scams but didn’t reveal...
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7 June, 2023
Australia opens public consultation on banning ‘high-risk’ AI tools
The public consultation will run until July 26, with academic and industry players as well as policymakers, establishing ideas on...