A British foreign exchange company boss who used investors' cash to fund his luxury lifestyle was sentenced in his absence to 14 years in jail on Friday over a 70 million pound ($88 million) Ponzi scheme.
British consumers buying cryptoassets will get a 24-hour "cooling-off" period for the first time from October under tougher marketing rules unveiled by the financial regulator on Thursday.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued Coinbase , accusing the largest U.S. cryptocurrency platform of operating illegally because it failed to register as an exchange.
Bank of Queensland Ltd said on Wednesday it had entered into separate undertakings with the country's financial crime and prudential regulators to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws and address risk governance practices.
The European Union on Tuesday imposed sanctions on seven people from Moldova for actions it said destabilised and undermined the territorial integrity of the small impoverished country and neighbouring Ukraine.