London Governance & Compliance Academy

OECD’s Common Reporting Standards (CRS) and the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF)

Introduction and Rationale The Common Reporting Standard (CRS), an initiative under the aegis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), emerged from the increasing need to address the widespread issue of tax evasion on a global scale. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, international attention sharply focused on the scale of […]

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The FCA restricts the circulation of crypto-derivatives by banning their sale to retail customers

FCA measures include banning the sale, marketing and distribution of any derivatives and exchange traded notes with linkage to unregulated cryptoassets, citing “inherent nature of the underlying assets, which means they have no reliable basis for valuation” to justify them. According to Sheldon Mills, interim Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA, this […]

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