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Articoli Correlati: Anti-money laundering - bitcoins

Stricter regulation of virtual currencies, such as bitcoins, to prevent their use for money laundering and terrorist financing. Recognition in favor of citizens of the right of access to information on the actual beneficiaries of companies operating within the European Union. These are some of the provisions contained in the fifth and last update to the E.U. anti-money laundering directive, approved by the European Parliament in the plenary session of 19 April 2018 on which Parliament and the Council had already expressed their consent in an informal way last month of December 2017.
The European Parliament announced this with a press release of 19 April 2018. Entry into force will take place three days after the publication of the directive in the Official Journal of the EU. The new rules will then have to be transcribed, within the respective national legislation by the Member States, within 18 months.