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.
HMRC has updated its authorised software list for Pillar 2 Top-up Tax filings, signalling a tightening compliance window for large UK-linked corporate groups and their advisers.
HMRC refreshes the VAT-exempt investment gold coin list, adding Tristan da Cunha, with updated guidance on the 180% price threshold and Global Accounting treatment
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.
HMRC refreshes VAT Notice 723A: procedural rules for non-UK businesses reclaiming UK VAT, with key deadlines and eligibility conditions accounting firms need to track now
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.
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
Explain how accounting firms and finance teams must navigate overlapping global crypto reporting frameworks, from DAC8 reporting and CARF to IFRS crypto assets and ASC 350-60, and what practical steps ensure audit-readiness across jurisdictions.
A practical guide for UK accounting firms and auditors explaining what crypto accounting and audit compliance requires in 2025, and how purpose-built crypto audit software closes the gap between manual spreadsheet workflows and audit-ready reporting.
A practical guide for Irish accounting firms and auditors on how to meet crypto accounting, audit, and compliance obligations using purpose-built crypto audit software.
