News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Reed Smith's Aquarius platform automates MiCA compliance workflows, signalling how legal-tech tools are reshaping regulatory operations for CASPs, accounting firms, and CFOs across the EU and beyond.
Dubai's VARA has published one of the most detailed crypto regulatory frameworks globally, with direct implications for VASP licensing, AML/CFT obligations, and asset segregation, plus a firm prohibition on privacy coins that accounting firms and compliance teams must absorb immediately.
Regulated crypto firms do not need a novel governance model: the three-lines-of-defense framework from traditional finance already meets what regulators expect globally, and firms that ignore it face personal liability.
A practical explainer for UAE-based accounting firms and finance teams on how global crypto financial reporting standards, including IFRS, FASB ASC 350-60, CARF, and DAC8, apply within the UAE's regulatory context and what steps firms must take to stay compliant.
A practical guide for accounting firms, auditors, and fund administrators on the specific crypto accounting and audit obligations operating in the UAE, and how purpose-built crypto audit software closes the compliance gap.
