Daily Archives: 01/07/2021

About 650 US banks will provide customers with access to bitcoin with the participation of NYDIG and NCR

New York Digital Investments Group (NYDIG) and payments firm NCR have announced a partnership that will bring about 650 banks in the United States to offer their customers the option to buy bitcoin. Digital asset management firm NYDIG is a subsidiary of Stone Ridge Asset Management. The agreement between NYDIG and NCR will allow American banks and credit cooperatives to offer cryptocurrency trading to their clients, which total about 24 million people across the country.…

FinCEN has included crypto assets in the agency’s list of national priorities

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States (FinCEN) has identified the fight against illegal activities related to cryptocurrencies among the agency’s key priorities. In the first list of national priorities, FinCEN identified eight key areas: corruption, cybercrime and related aspects of cryptoasset-related illegal activities, including terrorist financing, fraud, transnational criminal organizations, drug trafficking, human trafficking and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. So far, the agency’s priority list is not linked…