BRUSSELS, Belgium—The European Union is taking steps aimed at making it more difficult for criminals to misuse crypto currencies for criminal purposes.
Negotiators from the Council of the European Union presidency and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the proposal updating the rules on information accompanying the transfers of funds by extending the scope of those rules to transfers of crypto assets.
According to the Council of the European Union, the introduction of this “travel rule” will ensure financial transparency on exchanges in crypto-assets and will provide the E.U. with a solid and proportional framework that complies with the most demanding international standards on the exchange of crypto-assets, in particular recommendations 15 and 16 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
“The aim of this recast is to introduce an obligation for crypto asset service providers to collect and make accessible certain information about the originator and the beneficiary of the transfers of crypto assets they operate,” the Council of the European Union stated. “This is what payment service providers currently do for wire transfers. This will ensure traceability of crypto-asset transfers in order to be able to better identify possible suspicious transactions and block them.
Protecting ‘Integrity’
“The new agreement will enable the E.U. to deal with the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing linked to these new technologies, while reconciling competitiveness, consumer and investor protection, and the protection of the financial integrity of the internal market,” the organization added.
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