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Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov joined the board of payments company A7.
推荐理由：The article links changes to A7’s board with U.S. sanctions, proposed restrictions by FinCEN, and A7A5’s fund flows, presenting its scale and compliance risks in Russia’s foreign trade payments.
CoreWeave and Broadcom have refused to allow tokens linked to their shares to be traded on OKXICE’s new trading venue, while Cerebras Systems has also not allowed related tokens to trade on the venue.
推荐理由：The article details OKXICE’s notification and objection mechanism: companies must raise objections within 30 days of receiving a listing notice, or the tokens could enter tokenized trading.
ePayments Systems Limited entered special administration on 15 October 2026, and the FCA appointed Mark Boast and Allister Manson of Opus Restructuring LLP as joint special administrators.
推荐理由：The announcement explains customer claims, the return of funds and customer funds safeguarding arrangements under special administration, and clarifies that payment services are not covered by FSCS, directly relating to how EPS customers can recover their funds.
Under MiCA, EBA has designated USDC as a significant e-money token. Among the 45 EMTs currently notified in the EU, USDC is the first to receive this status. From 12 November 2026, EBA will be directly responsible for the issuer’s own funds, reserve assets, liquidity, and recovery and redemption plans, while France’s ACPR will continue to be responsible for governance, qualifying holdings, fit and proper assessments, outsourcing, and conflicts of interest.
推荐理由：The article outlines the division of responsibilities between EBA and ACPR after USDC’s inclusion as a significant EMT, helping readers understand how supervisory responsibilities for stablecoin issuers are being reallocated under MiCA.
OCC released a 47-page follow-up report alleging that policies or practices at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, PNC, Capital One, TD and BMO between 2020 and 2025 may have affected the cancellation of banking services based on customers' political or religious views.
推荐理由：The OCC report catalogs policies and cases involving the cancellation of banking services at nine banks, allowing readers to understand how political or religious views entered financial-services eligibility reviews.
The US Department of Justice is reportedly investigating businesses surrounding payment company Euro Exchange, seeking information from the administrator overseeing its liquidation and issuing a subpoena to its affiliated company, Banex International Bank. Previously, UK authorities seized Euro Exchange in June over possible AML violations, after which the FCA investigated its possible involvement in illegal activities.
推荐理由：Following regulatory action in the UK, the US Department of Justice reportedly sought information from the liquidator and affiliated bank, highlighting the cross-border enforcement pressure facing the same payment company network.
CFPB announced the launch of a new phase of work to investigate whether large banks restrict financial services based on customers’ political or religious beliefs and lawful business activities. The action targets the 9 large national banks mentioned in an OCC report and covers industries including firearms, oil and gas, and tobacco, while also reviewing compliance with ECOA, FCRA, and UDAAP. CFPB also said it will use consumer complaints, regulatory, and enforcement data to launch investigations and take action when necessary.
推荐理由：The material connects the restrictions on banking services identified in the OCC report with CFPB’s investigative authority and complaint channels, making it easier to understand how political or industry factors can enter the scope of consumer financial enforcement.
Two people familiar with the matter said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is taking regulatory action against crypto exchange Coins.ph over alleged violations involving the provision of services to offshore gambling platforms, which could, in serious cases, lead to the revocation of its license. Earlier this month, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reportedly restricted deposits to the exchange through its main wallet operator, DCPay Philippines, and several compliance executives also left this year. Coins.ph has more than 18 million customers and controls approximately 75%-80% of the Philippines’ peso-to-stablecoin liquidity.
推荐理由：The report links the licensing risk, restrictions on deposits through DCPay and the departures of compliance team members, helping readers understand the potential regulatory impact on the Philippines’ crypto trading and stablecoin liquidity.
The U.S. Treasury Department fined Bank of America over $1.21 billion for anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance deficiencies; the bank admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Of this amount, Bank of America will pay $750 million to the OCC, while OFAC separately reached an $11.6 million settlement over sanctions violations. The OCC said the bank's monitoring systems had serious deficiencies, resulting in delays in filing suspicious activity reports related to tens of billions of dollars in transactions.
推荐理由：The penalties cover anti-money laundering monitoring, the escalation and investigation of suspicious activity, and reporting timelines, illustrating the scope of regulators' enforcement against financial crime compliance deficiencies at banks.
FinCEN and staff from federal banking regulators issued two FAQs clarifying that banks and credit unions may use qualifying government-issued digital credentials to verify customer identities under the CIP, but institutions are not required to accept them. VDCs must be digitally signed by the issuing agency, cryptographically bound to a device, protected by activation factors such as a PIN or biometric authentication, and capable of being processed by the institution’s systems. Banks must still identify signs of fraud, handle anomalies, and retain sufficient records; existing customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, sanctions compliance, and suspicious activity monitoring obligations remain unchanged.
推荐理由：The guidance links the compliance use of digital identity to system authentication, anomaly handling, and recordkeeping capabilities, making it useful for assessing the implementation requirements of digital bank account opening.
The Council of the European Union reached broad agreement on its negotiating position on MISP, supporting an increase in the cap for a single DLT market infrastructure under the DLT Pilot Regime from €6 billion to €300 billion, while retaining the possibility of raising it to €500 billion in the future through a Commission delegated act.
推荐理由：The article presents in parallel the changes to the DLT tokenization cap, the amount under the banking sector’s settlement proposal, and the division of regulatory responsibilities for CASPs, making it easier to understand the key disagreements in the MISP negotiations.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) warned that global stablecoins and national regulatory frameworks have not yet been tested by a severe market crisis, potentially exposing cross-border gaps in redemptions, reserve transfers and the recovery of holders’ funds. The FSB recommended strengthening cross-border information sharing and monitoring, as well as contingency planning for stablecoin distress or failure; stablecoin market capitalization has risen from approximately $206 billion at the beginning of 2025 to $306 billion. The recommendations are not legally binding, but members typically commit to implementing common standards domestically.
推荐理由：The report outlines the challenges posed by multi-issuer structures, cross-border reserve transfers and 24/7 trading, helping explain why stablecoin crisis management requires cross-border coordination.
Federal Reserve took enforcement action against American Express, stating that it failed to adequately identify and report certain suspicious activities related to money laundering. Federal Reserve also found significant deficiencies in the implementation of its enterprise-wide AML program, particularly involving its national bank; OCC has taken separate enforcement action against the bank.
Latest developmentOct 9 10:23American Express因AML失误被罚3.5亿美元
推荐理由：The enforcement action involves both suspicious activity monitoring and reporting and the execution of an enterprise-wide AML program, highlighting Federal Reserve’s specific areas of concern regarding anti-money laundering management at banking groups.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has notified banks and crypto asset exchanges not to wait until April 1, 2027, but to stop requiring customers to upload photos of identity documents early and switch to verification by reading data from identity card IC chips. Under the new process, smartphones read the customer’s name, address, date of birth and facial photo, and match them against a live image of the applicant; the facial image capture step remains.
推荐理由：The material explains Japan’s shift from identity document photo uploads to IC chip-based verification and notes that banks and crypto asset exchanges need to adjust their remote account opening processes in tandem.
Spain has passed Real Decreto 813/2026, requiring user identity verification for all crypto ATM transactions, with operators given 18 months to install electronic identification systems. Real Decreto-ley 25/2026, which took effect earlier, had already brought crypto-asset service providers under anti-money laundering obligations and implemented the Travel Rule set out in Regulation (EU) 2023/1113.
推荐理由：Spain has written crypto ATM identity verification and the deadline for electronic identification systems into law, while also bringing them under AML obligations, helping to understand its approach to tightening crypto regulation ahead of its FATF assessment.
The UK has added three cryptocurrency exchanges, multiple payment platforms and related individuals to sanctions measures comprising 38 new designations, saying they are suspected of helping Russia evade sanctions. The UK Foreign Office said some of the targets had processed or assisted transactions involving the A7 network, which operates the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5. The UK assets of designated entities will be frozen, and UK financial institutions will be prohibited from processing payments involving some of the related companies.
推荐理由：The sanctions round restricts both the UK assets and some payment channels of designated entities, presenting concrete measures targeting a network suspected of helping evade sanctions.
The Cross-Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG), jointly chaired by Bank of England and UK Finance, completed SIMEX26 on 8 October 2026. The exercise focused on a global cloud service outage and involved 38 of the largest and systemically important banks and market infrastructure operators.
推荐理由：The exercise demonstrated how the UK financial sector coordinates its response to a global cloud service outage and clearly required institutions to use the findings to strengthen their capabilities to address severe operational and cyber scenarios.
Singapore's Parliament passed the Digital Infrastructure Bill on October 7, 2026, establishing two licensing regimes for data centres and cloud services that affect critical services such as digital banking and payments. Critical data centres, cloud service providers, and data centres meeting the 3MW critical IT load threshold will face licensing, risk management, incident reporting, or energy efficiency requirements; certain violations may incur fines of up to S$1 million or 10 percent of annual turnover in Singapore.
推荐理由：The Bill brings operational resilience, incident reporting, and energy efficiency requirements for data centres and cloud services into a licensing framework, enabling payment institutions to assess the compliance and continuity impacts of underlying infrastructure.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal is demanding that Cantor Fitzgerald explain its oversight of Tether’s banking and sanctions compliance, as well as related communications and investigative actions.
推荐理由：The materials present the Senate’s focus in investigating Tether’s compliance risks, Cantor Fitzgerald’s commercial interests, and Tether’s response to enforcement actions, helping map the chain of debate over stablecoin sanctions risks.
ESMA requires EU crypto firms to unwind existing exposures to stablecoins that do not comply with MiCA by January 8, 2027, and gives national financial regulators 90 days to supervise enforcement. Individuals holding USDT are not directly prohibited, but EU service providers regulated under MiCA must stop providing relevant access, while they may continue to offer exit services such as liquidation, conversion, withdrawals, transfers and custody.
推荐理由：The material clarifies that the restriction is not a ban on individuals holding USDT, but a requirement for EU service providers regulated under MiCA to stop providing relevant access, helping readers distinguish between holding the asset and access to services.