Law Decoded: Of AML and appointees, Nov. 6–13

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In the United States, as President Donald Trump stonewalls any efforts at transitioning to a new administration, all eyes are on Joe Biden’s potential team and any hints as to candidates for major appointed positions.

Further complicating the set up of a presidential roster is that most presidential appointments require Senate approval. The Senate, meanwhile, is waiting until January for a run-off election in Georgia to establish a majority. So, as with everything else, we in the states are in limbo.

It is a fair bet that any Biden appointee to Treasury Secretary will be less overtly antagonistic to crypto than Steven Mnuchin. But at the same time, at regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Republican Trump appointees have taken the lead in pushing for clarity on rules governing digital assets. We’ll look at the case of Brian Brooks, whose status as Acting Comptroller of the Currency may not survive a new administration.

At the same time, crypto exchanges have been stepping up their compliance with new Anti-Money Laundering regimes — one of the most resilient criticisms that governments level at the entire industry. As regimes are adapting, industry players are clearly adapting to regimes.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/law-decoded-of-aml-and-appointees-nov-6-13