Opinions

FinCEN, short for Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, has resurrected its longstanding desire for many investment advisers to fall under the same policies as banks and broker-dealers when it comes to complying with anti-money laundering regulations. So far, investment advisers have been required to follow anti-fraud regulations and to avoid doing

DORA – Bolstering and Harmonising Operational Resilience Across the EU The EU’s DORA is inevitable and will have rippling effects beyond the union. It supersedes previous industry-specific operational resilience guidelines and overcomes national disparities, harmonising guidelines for key focus areas across the entire financial industry value chain to establish a

This week, Capitol Account had some big news of our own: Ryan Tracy, a longtime reporter at The Wall Street Journal, joined the newsletter. He spent 13 years at the paper earning a (well-deserved) reputation as one of the top journalists covering Washington’s oversight of business. His deep experience includes

Bitcoin is a unique and novel asset that facilitates peer to peer electronic transactions without intermediaries. It has a hard cap of 21 million and is grounded in open source technology, economics, psychology, with a cypherpunk ethos, and designed as a transparent asset and network that can be continuously verified

For a long time, cross-border payments and treasury management systems have been archaic and ripe for reform. Many across the industry, from retail customers and traditional banks to financial service providers, believe that digital asset tokenisation could be the answer to eradicating inefficient and slow processes in payments. In recent