News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
The GENIUS Act is law but the US crypto market structure bill has missed its self-imposed July 4 deadline, leaving stablecoin accounting frameworks and digital asset reporting obligations without a complete regulatory foundation.
ASIC's $20.5M penalty proceeding against ASX over misleading CHESS replacement disclosures signals heightened scrutiny of DLT project governance and market announcements for listed entities and their advisers.
The AMF's €1.2m spoofing sanctions against a German derivatives firm have survived every appeal stage, including the Cour de cassation, confirming cross-border jurisdiction over Eurex-listed futures linked to French sovereign bonds.
AMF 2025 annual report signals MiCA authorisation pressure, asset tokenisation as a Paris priority, and tightening cyber resilience expectations for crypto-asset service providers in France and the EU
The AMF sanctions commission issued a formal warning to a French asset manager and its president for multiple professional obligation failures, later reinforced on appeal by the Conseil d'État in 2023, with non-anonymous publication ordered for three years.
The AMF completed transposition of the revised EU Transparency Directive in December 2015, tightening threshold-crossing disclosure rules and regulated-information language requirements for French-listed issuers.
AMF deregisters AUTOMATA France SAS as a PSAN from 30 June 2026, citing unauthorised crowdfunding activity and fitness failures, with ordered wind-down obligations now in effect
The AMF Sanctions Commission fined an unnamed investment services provider EUR 220,000 for five professional obligation failures covering order record-keeping, best-execution policy, and client incident disclosure, covering conduct between 2014 and 2016.
ESMA signals that prediction market event contracts are already caught by existing EU retail prohibitions, creating urgent product classification and compliance obligations for CASPs and their auditors.
How ground-truth labeling and ML-driven scaling shape the AML screening infrastructure that compliance teams and auditors rely on
The accountability-control gap in AI-driven compliance: why CCOs and MLROs face governance exposure before regulators catch up
Smart Valor AG receives MiCAR CASP licence from FMA Liechtenstein effective 1 July 2026, signalling continued post-transitional authorisation momentum in the EEA
Senator Gillibrand's proposed ethics restriction barring elected officials from issuing digital assets signals tightening governance standards that accounting firms and CFOs must track for compliance and client advisory work.
Outgoing IASB Chair warns that over-automating accounting work risks eroding the professional judgment on which high-quality financial reporting depends, with direct implications for how firms train and supervise junior staff.
The PIOB is recruiting IESBA members for 2027 terms, with implications for how global ethics standards that underpin crypto financial reporting are shaped.
IAASB and IESBA launch a joint User Advisory Group, giving financial statement users a formal seat at the global standard-setting table for the first time
IESBA's new proportionality guide explains how the Code of Ethics scales its requirements for smaller practices, with direct implications for how accounting firms document independence and ethics compliance.
IESBA adds a single overarching firm culture and governance requirement to the global ethics Code, with practical implementation guidance to follow outside the Code itself
IESBA launches post-implementation surveys on NOCLAR and the Restructured Code, signalling potential standard updates that accounting firms and auditors need to track
ASIC's wind-up action against 12 companies for unlicensed financial services and four years of missed audited financial statements is a sharp reminder that audit lodgement failures and unlicensed advice carry existential regulatory risk in Australia.
IVSC proposes IVS 107 Quality Controls as a new General Standard in its IVS Exposure Draft, targeting stronger governance and transparency in private credit valuations ahead of a January 2028 effective date.
FMA Liechtenstein grants a new CASP registration two days after the MiCA transitional period closed, signalling active post-transition enforcement and compliance benchmarks for accounting firms and auditors serving digital asset clients in the EEA.
ASIC charges a permanently disqualified SMSF auditor who continued signing off on 56 entities and fabricated 47 audit reports, exposing the compliance risk for accounting firms relying on third-party auditors
A key law enforcement bloc has dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act, narrowing one political obstacle to US crypto market structure legislation with direct implications for DeFi liability and AML compliance frameworks.
