President Joseph R. Biden signed an "Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets," which outlined a "first ever, whole-of-government approach" to address the risks and potential benefits of digital assets.
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The Congressional Research Service highlighted possible benefits and risks concerning Facebook's proposed virtual currency, Libra.
A Facebook executive responded to regulatory concerns over the company's proposed blockchain-based cryptocurrency, "Libra."
Firm culture, conflicts of interest, outsourcing, anti-money laundering and liquidity will be among major FINRA initiatives in 2016.
NFA issued separate Complaints charging two NFA-registered introducing brokers with AML program violations and recordkeeping and capital minimum failures. NFA charged DMFiala LTD ("DMF") with failing to fully implement the firm's anti-money laundering ("AML") program, thereby violating NFA Compliance Rule 2-9(c). NFA found that DMF was required to have its 2013 annual audit of its AML program completed by May 31, 2013, but did not have the audit completed until August 2013. Additionally, NFA found that DMF's 2007 audit was late by approximately 12 months, and that DMF was over four months late