On 16 July 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its seventh targeted update on how countries are implementing the FATF standards for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. The headline finding is that implementation remains uneven. Of the 109 jurisdictions answering the Travel Rule legislation question, 91, or 83 percent, reported legislation in…
On 21 July 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its Targeted Report on Regulatory Challenges from Decentralised Finance, and the message for anti-money laundering teams is blunt: decentralised is a claim to be tested, not a label that lifts a service out of scope. Where an identifiable natural or legal person controls or sufficiently…
On 9 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board put bank, financial-market-infrastructure and insurance resolution experts in the same room and told them to stop planning in parallel. The occasion was the FSB’s ReSolve event for its Cross-Border Crisis Management working groups, and the framing came from FSB Secretary General John Schindler: the financial system is…