News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Kenya's CMA moves to procure a blockchain analytics tool, raising immediate AML compliance and record-keeping obligations for accounting firms and CFOs operating in or serving the Kenyan digital asset market.
SEC's 2026 rulemaking agenda for crypto broker-dealers, digital asset exchanges, and safe harbors creates concrete compliance and accounting obligations for firms and CFOs
SEC crypto safe harbor proposal: regulatory and accounting compliance implications for US firms and CFOs
The European Commission's proposed Omnibus Directive and DAC Recast will reshape cross-border tax compliance obligations for EU-operating firms, with unanimous member-state approval still required.
The EBA and ECB are reshaping the 2027 EU-wide stress test with climate risk integration, COREP/FINREP alignment, and a 55% reduction in data points. Accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs at supervised banks need to understand the IFRS 9 provisioning, reporting, and capital planning implications now.
SARS draft crypto tax guidance applies existing Income Tax Act and CGT rules to disposals, trader vs investor classification, and donations tax, with a public comment window closing 31 August 2026
The FCA's Mills Review signals that agentic AI and tokenized settlement infrastructure are converging fast, creating immediate governance, AML, and accounting obligations for UK firms.
Senator Gillibrand's proposed bill to ban elected officials from issuing meme coins raises immediate questions for accounting firms and CFOs tracking US crypto regulatory risk and structuring client disclosures.
FINMA endorses the Federal Council's Banking Act revision, pushing for full adoption of preventive supervisory powers and an end to double leverage at systemically important banks
AFM finds the Dutch AI Act implementation law workable in principle but flags gaps in supervisory task allocation, capacity, and data-sharing that financial firms must track now
The GENIUS Act is law but the US crypto market structure bill has missed its self-imposed July 4 deadline, leaving stablecoin accounting frameworks and digital asset reporting obligations without a complete regulatory foundation.
The accountability-control gap in AI-driven compliance: why CCOs and MLROs face governance exposure before regulators catch up
Senator Gillibrand's proposed ethics restriction barring elected officials from issuing digital assets signals tightening governance standards that accounting firms and CFOs must track for compliance and client advisory work.
Outgoing IASB Chair warns that over-automating accounting work risks eroding the professional judgment on which high-quality financial reporting depends, with direct implications for how firms train and supervise junior staff.
IAASB and IESBA launch a joint User Advisory Group, giving financial statement users a formal seat at the global standard-setting table for the first time
IESBA adds a single overarching firm culture and governance requirement to the global ethics Code, with practical implementation guidance to follow outside the Code itself
IVSC proposes IVS 107 Quality Controls as a new General Standard in its IVS Exposure Draft, targeting stronger governance and transparency in private credit valuations ahead of a January 2028 effective date.
A key law enforcement bloc has dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act, narrowing one political obstacle to US crypto market structure legislation with direct implications for DeFi liability and AML compliance frameworks.
The Investment Association's inaugural tokenized-funds practice note reframes how fund accountants, auditors, and CFOs must think about NAV calculation, reconciliation workflows, and embedded AML/KYC compliance under a DLT model.
ASIC convenes its first capital markets modernisation roundtable, signalling that DLT, tokenised assets, and AI-driven trading are now regulatory priorities for Australian financial services firms and their advisers
MFSA opens consultation on transposing EU AML Directive 2025/1 into Maltese law, with direct implications for CASPs, accountants, and compliance teams operating in or passporting into Malta
FINMA's AMLO-FINMA consultation introduces stricter beneficial ownership, embargo, and correspondent banking rules that Swiss financial intermediaries and their advisers must map against current compliance programmes before the 9 June 2026 deadline.
The European Commission's June 2026 Tax Omnibus rewrites core EU direct-tax directives, removing holding requirements, tightening anti-abuse rules, and aligning CFC and Pillar Two treatment. Accounting firms and CFOs serving EU multinationals need to map the changes now.
DAC9 formalises the GloBE Information Return in EU law, creating a central filing option and mandatory information exchange that MNE groups and their advisers must plan around now
