News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Senior regulators in the UAE, UK, and Hong Kong are publicly committing to AI-driven, real-time supervisory models, replacing periodic reporting with continuous monitoring, and this has direct implications for how accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs must structure their AML/CFT compliance and crypto accounting software strategies.
FATF's July 2026 PPP report exposes the crypto industry's shallow integration into AML partnerships and signals where compliance obligations are heading for firms and CFOs.
Parliamentary inquiry into crypto banking access creates compliance and client-advisory obligations for UK accounting firms and CFOs managing digital asset operations.
EU, US, and UK sanctions against Trickbot/Conti administrator 'Stern' and ransomware enablers trigger OFAC screening, wallet-tagging, and AML obligations for accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs.
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.
UK political momentum for a permanent crypto donation ban and what it signals for AML/KYC obligations on accounting firms and CFOs advising crypto-exposed clients
The FCA's Mills Review signals that agentic AI and tokenized settlement infrastructure are converging fast, creating immediate governance, AML, and accounting obligations for UK firms.
The accountability-control gap in AI-driven compliance: why CCOs and MLROs face governance exposure before regulators catch up
Four major financial centres are building robust crypto licensing regimes to attract regulated digital asset activity, with direct implications for accounting firms and compliance teams advising crypto-active clients.
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.
Approval phishing is a scalable, infrastructure-reusing scam that compliance teams can systematically detect and disrupt using on-chain intelligence and coordinated law enforcement protocols.
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.
The FCA has finalised its crypto regulatory framework, setting clear authorisation, market integrity, and consumer protection rules that UK-facing accounting firms and auditors must now build into their compliance programmes.
Practical compliance briefing: what the FCA's final crypto rules and 2027 authorization deadline mean for accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs advising UK crypto businesses
HMRC's TRS risk-of-harm exemption process: what it means for trustees, agents, and compliance teams managing beneficial ownership disclosures
HMRC publishes its Economic Crime Supervision Handbook, setting out how it supervises UK businesses for AML compliance and what firms can expect during supervisory engagement
