Tag: Estonias

Estonia’s Registered Crypto Firms Drop 80% as Tough New Checks Reveal 'Suspicious' Behavior

Estonia’s Registered Crypto Firms Drop 80% as Tough New Checks Reveal 'Suspicious' Behavior

Regulators in the tech-friendly nation say they’ll return to business-as-usual monitoring after money laundering fears led it to take a tough line. w [...]
Estonia’s new AML laws set to clamp down on crypto industry

Estonia’s new AML laws set to clamp down on crypto industry

Beginning in February, Estonia is set to introduce sweeping changes to its definition of Virtual Asset Service Providers, or VASPs, to include seve [...]
Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants Stricter Rules for Crypto Licenses

Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants Stricter Rules for Crypto Licenses

Mets said that the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, must pass the new regulations, which the FIU supports, and that if they win approval, crypto [...]
Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants to Revoke All Crypto Licenses — CoinDesk

Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants to Revoke All Crypto Licenses — CoinDesk

Talking to journalists, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) chief, appointed in May of this year, said crypto companies have made “tens of billio [...]
Estonia’s crypto honeymoon at an finish as stricter rules loom

Estonia’s crypto honeymoon at an finish as stricter rules loom

Estonia’s finance ministry is reportedly trying to enact stricter crypto licensing rules. This comes after the authorities revoked the licenses of [...]
Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Economic system, Estonia’s CBDC Analysis, Coinbase’s Severances

Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Economic system, Estonia’s CBDC Analysis, Coinbase’s Severances

Estonia will analysis the viability of blockchain-based digital foreign money, the SEC is open to the concept of a tokenized ETF and Coinbase staff [...]
Estonia’s Central Financial institution to Analysis if Blockchain Can Help a Digital Euro

Estonia’s Central Financial institution to Analysis if Blockchain Can Help a Digital Euro

Eesti Pank stated the initiative will gauge the suitability of the KSI Blockchain, already used throughout the nation's e-government system, in sup [...]
Crypto scammers plague Estonia’s e-residency program

Crypto scammers plague Estonia’s e-residency program

The e-residency program of Estonia is now beneath the native regulator’s radar as foreigners registered as e-residents of the Baltic nation are bei [...]
Estonia’s Crypto Crackdown Weeds Out Unhealthy AML/KYC

Estonia’s Crypto Crackdown Weeds Out Unhealthy AML/KYC

On the peak of the unprecedented crypto increase of 2017, Estonia emerged because the digital trailblazer of the European Union, issuing a whole bu [...]
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