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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) requirements to send and receive virtual currency, users of unhosted or “self-hosted” wallets can transact directly with one another and with hosted wallets using their own private keys, creating potential illicit finance risks. FinCEN’s proposed rule would, if enacted, create new obligations for banks and money services businesses (MSBs) including virtual asset service providers (VASPs) eng ....

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