News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
The Investment Association's inaugural tokenized-funds practice note reframes how fund accountants, auditors, and CFOs must think about NAV calculation, reconciliation workflows, and embedded AML/KYC compliance under a DLT model.
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.
Three simultaneous regulatory moves, NYDFS-EBA stablecoin MOU, Hong Kong VATP and advisory licensing, and CFTC perpetual futures approvals, are reshaping the cross-border compliance obligations of stablecoin issuers, VASPs, and digital asset firms in 2026.
The MiCA VASP transition period closed on 1 July 2026: EU authorization is now a hard legal requirement, and non-compliant providers face immediate operational restrictions with direct consequences for their clients.
MFSA opens consultation on transposing EU AML Directive 2025/1 into Maltese law, with direct implications for CASPs, accountants, and compliance teams operating in or passporting into Malta
MFSA imposes a €2,400 penalty on a company service provider for missing the 2022 Annual Compliance Return deadline, a live reminder that regulatory filing obligations carry real financial consequences
MiCA's transition window has closed but uneven NCА enforcement capacity across EU member states creates immediate compliance and audit risk for CASPs and their advisers
ECOFIN agrees general approach on VAT data-sharing reform: what the expanded EPPO/OLAF/Eurofisc access means for cross-border compliance obligations
The European Commission's June 2026 Tax Omnibus rewrites core EU direct-tax directives, removing holding requirements, tightening anti-abuse rules, and aligning CFC and Pillar Two treatment. Accounting firms and CFOs serving EU multinationals need to map the changes now.
ESMA's first post-deadline MiCA register update adds 37 CASPs including Standard Chartered, reshaping EU crypto licensing obligations for accounting firms and CFOs.
Three EU tax shifts land simultaneously: the FASTER Directive is now law, Italy's tax consolidation rules face a CJEU test, and Romania's windfall tax joins a growing queue of CJEU referrals. Accounting firms and CFOs need to know what each means for cross-border structures.
DAC7 is live across most EU member states: where implementation stands, what platform operators must report, and which countries are still catching up
Four concurrent EU tax enforcement and legislative developments across Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden create immediate compliance pressure for multinationals and their advisers.
Four CJEU and EU-level tax rulings from late 2022 carry direct compliance implications for accounting firms and CFOs operating across Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany, covering property platform withholding, capital duties, State aid, and energy solidarity contributions.
DAC9 formalises the GloBE Information Return in EU law, creating a central filing option and mandatory information exchange that MNE groups and their advisers must plan around now
ECB intensifies scrutiny of IFRS 9 provisioning, forbearance practices, and leveraged lending at supervised banks, with direct implications for how accounting teams and auditors support credit risk governance.
ECB streamlines IRB model-change approval from October 2026, but faster sign-off depends entirely on credible internal controls and early supervisory engagement
Two landmark EU court rulings reshape the tax treatment of cross-border banking branches in Portugal and close off a direct challenge to the EU Minimum Tax Directive, with direct implications for multinational structures and tonnage tax planning.
EU DAC6/DAC7/DAC8 regulatory shifts, IAS 12 GloBE amendments, and member-state implementations create concrete compliance obligations for accounting firms and CFOs advising EU-facing clients
Five on-chain financial crime typologies compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and custodians must embed in their AML/CFT frameworks now
Event-driven continuous wallet rescreening closes the post-onboarding AML gap that manual periodic checks cannot cover at scale
A practical framework for embedding blockchain analytics into institutional AML workflows across all three lines of defense
AML and compliance obligations triggered by the Huione Guarantee marketplace processing over $11 billion in USDT, with implications for transaction screening, SAR filing, and sanctions exposure at regulated firms globally
How mixers and privacy wallets undermine crypto compliance screening, and what accounting firms and auditors must do to manage the exposure
