News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Senate minority leader's proposed Anti-Corruption Bureau targets executive-branch crypto conflicts, adding political friction to the CLARITY Act and reshaping digital asset compliance risk for CFOs and accounting firms
South Korea policy report urges interim stablecoin licensing before the Digital Asset Basic Act passes, creating compliance and accounting preparation windows for firms with KR exposure
Revised CLARITY Act ethics provisions shift enforcement to state authorities, narrowing the path to Senate passage and creating near-term regulatory uncertainty for accounting firms and CFOs holding digital assets.
FATF publishes DeFi regulatory challenges report: what accounting firms, auditors and CFOs must assess now
SEC Chair Atkins signals the agency will act unilaterally on crypto rules if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act, raising compliance planning urgency for accounting firms and CFOs.
Law enforcement groups push last-minute amendments to the CLARITY Act's developer liability provisions, White House signals opposition, and the Senate recess clock runs down.
South Korea's FSC moves toward a consolidated Digital Asset Basic Act while opposition tables a bill to scrap the 2027 crypto income tax — immediate compliance and accounting implications for firms and CFOs with Korean exposure.
CZ's ASEAN crypto-passporting proposal and its compliance and licensing implications for accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs
New York AG's CLARITY Act testimony raises AML, KYC, and state-preemption risks that CFOs and compliance teams must map now
Fidelity's Senate lobbying push on the CLARITY Act and what the regulatory framework means for accounting firms and CFOs managing digital asset portfolios
Congressional recess watch: Reconciliation 2.0, SEC Project Crypto, and an energy credit standoff that is blocking Treasury nominees
The CLARITY Act ethics enforcement deadlock and its practical implications for accounting firms, CFOs, and digital asset businesses tracking US market structure legislation
Goldman Sachs CEO breaks from Wall Street peers to back the CLARITY Act, signalling a regulatory inflection point that accounting firms and CFOs must plan for 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.
ECB digital euro legislative timeline, banking sector costs, and accounting implications for EU-facing firms and CFOs
SEC Commissioner Peirce signals crypto vaults and onchain lending may be securities: accounting, audit, and compliance action points for US firms and CFOs
CLARITY Act ethics clause bars federal officials from token issuance until 2029, creating new client-screening and disclosure obligations for accounting firms and CFOs tracking US digital asset legislation
FASB chair confirms existing interim-reporting standards largely cover any SEC semiannual shift, while flagging a new stablecoin cash-equivalents project as the bigger standard-setting watch item for CFOs and accounting firms
DOJ crypto enforcement pullback and CZ pardon: accounting and AML implications for US firms and CFOs
Senior regulators in the UAE, UK, and Hong Kong are publicly committing to AI-driven, real-time supervisory models, replacing periodic reporting with continuous monitoring, and this has direct implications for how accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs must structure their AML/CFT compliance and crypto accounting software strategies.
White House engagement on the CLARITY Act signals that US digital asset legislation is moving toward a vote, with concrete accounting and compliance implications for firms and CFOs
Parliamentary inquiry into crypto banking access creates compliance and client-advisory obligations for UK accounting firms and CFOs managing digital asset operations.
South Korea's proposed state asset management framework for digital assets and what it means for accounting firms and CFOs operating in or with KR exposure
Banking lobby's renewed push to tighten stablecoin yield language in the CLARITY Act creates material stablecoin accounting and compliance exposure for accounting firms and CFOs ahead of a potential Senate vote before August recess.
