
Sanctions
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7 July, 2023
Belarus to ban peer-to-peer digital asset transactions to combat crime
Belarus will only allow citizens to trade digital assets through centralized exchanges, saying it has uncovered 27 incidents of illegal...
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15 June, 2023
Atomic Wallet hack sees North Korea’s Lazarus Group pocketing $100M: report
Atomic Wallet was hacked earlier this month in an attack it claimed only affected 1% of users, and Elliptic reports...
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6 June, 2023
Georgian banking regulator to tighten AML screws for digital currency firms
Acting Governor of the NBG Archil Mestvirishvili confirmed that the Georgian central bank would float new anti-money laundering (AML) directives...
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3 June, 2023
Russian gov’t shelves plan for national digital currency exchange
The previous national digital currency exchange plans drew criticisms over its infrastructure risks and antitrust issues, as well as privacy...
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9 May, 2023
Binance probed for helping Russia dodge economic sanctions
May is taking a bad turn on Binance as the exchange is under investigation for violating economic sanctions against Russia,...
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5 May, 2023
Poloniex agrees to $7.6M settlement over 66,000 sanction violations
Poloniex allegedly allowed users based in Syria, Crimea, Iran, and Sudan to make over $15 million worth of trades on...