News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
FATF's 7th Targeted Update widens the gap between legislation and real enforcement, raising urgent AML, supervisory, and crypto accounting software obligations for firms and CFOs.
BDO's global crypto enforcement and compliance outlook: what accounting firms and CFOs must act on now
FATF publishes DeFi regulatory challenges report: what accounting firms, auditors and CFOs must assess now
Elliptic and Zama partnership shows wallet-level AML screening can coexist with FHE-based confidential DeFi, creating a compliance-by-design template for institutional on-chain finance
FATF's seventh crypto compliance report card reveals an enforcement gap that firms and supervisors must close now
FATF signals that DeFi's centralised elements must be regulated as VASPs, raising immediate AML, onboarding, and crypto accounting software obligations for firms advising digital asset clients.
The European Commission's MiCA review consultation opens every major pillar of the framework to potential amendment, creating near-term uncertainty and compliance planning obligations for accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs with EU digital asset exposure.
Five on-chain financial crime typologies compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and custodians must embed in their AML/CFT frameworks now
Cross-chain bridges enable large-scale crypto laundering beyond current AML controls, creating urgent compliance exposure for firms handling digital assets
Approval phishing is a growing threat that crypto accounting software can help detect through anomaly tracking and reconciliation.
DeFi breaks bookkeeping in a specific way: the wallet is not the position. What a receipt token hides, why gross versus net matters, and the reconciliation that makes it auditable.
