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BitPay charged $500k as settlement for multiple violations related to crypto payments 2 mins read The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has revealed that crypto payments platform BitPay has agreed to settle its potential civil liabilities on 2,102 apparent violations of sanctions programs. In an enforcement notice published on Feb. 18, the OFAC said that BitPay will pay $507,375 as a settlement on charges that allege the Atlanta-based firm allowed persons based in North Korea, Iran, Syria, Sudan, and the Crimea region of Ukraine to transact with merchants based in th...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 18 December, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced highly anticipated and controversial new proposed requirements designed to mitigate illicit finance risks associated with “unhosted” virtual currency wallets and wallets hosted in certain foreign jurisdictions with weak anti-money laundering regimes. Unlike customers who rely on the custody services of financial institutions subject to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) requirem...