The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to bank CEOs over the potential risks they face when dealing with cryptocurrencies.
As the British regulator for around 58,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the U.K., the FCA has issued formal warnings before on the risks of investing in cryptocurrencies.
In this latest warning, the FCA addresses the banks specifically and urges greater scrutiny of client and customer activities if they are deemed to be dealing in what the agency calls “cryptoassets.”
These include a client using a state-sponsored cryptocurrency, “which is designed to evade international financial sanctions” – presumably a hint that trading Venezuela’s petro token will get your account closed.
According to the FCA letter, these customers are at a “heightened” risk of investment fraud.
Binance is facing a new legal challenge in North Dakota as more than 300 victims and family members of the 7 October 2023 attack accuse the crypto exchange of enabling transactions linked to Hamas before the assault.
Conexus, Venezuela’s leading payments processor, plans to integrate Bitcoin and stablecoins like Tether (USDT), into the country’s banking network. The payments giant, which handles roughly 40% of electronic transfers in Venezuela, is eyeing a blockchain-based interbank network.
Local banks will offer custody, transfers, and crypto-to-fiat exchange services. The bolivar’s sharp depreciation has driven a surge in stablecoin adoption. Conexus currently processes nearly 40% of Venezuela’s electronic payments.
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