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Australian regulators announced priorities Wednesday focusing on digital currencies and cash-intensive businesses as top money laundering threats.
The agency will bring 80,000 new businesses under anti-money laundering laws starting July…
Financial derivatives provider Eightcap is now offering a contract for difference (CFD) based on the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), which offers a weighted performance of the largest digital assets.The CD20…
Australian federal police said it has contacted over 90 Australians as part of a crackdown on criminal use of crypto ATMs, including pig butchering victims and suspected offenders. One of the…
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ASIC has banned Glenda Rogan for ten years after she allegedly transferred $9.6 million from clients to a crypto investment scam.
Funds were sent to "Financial Centre," a UK platform…
Global leading CFD broker KCM Trade announced an annual strategic partnership with Australian professional golfer Enshan Hooi, becoming an official sponsor for his 2025 golf tour. The signing ceremony was…
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Australia’s markets regulator has filed civil proceedings against Liang “Allan” Guo, the former director of Blockchain Global. Guo will face the court on “allegations relating to multiple breaches of his directors’…
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Responding to a sarcastic prompt on X, Australian Senator Gerard Rennick called Bitcoin a “Ponzi scheme” driven by asset managers such as BlackRock.
Critics, including the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body,…
Australia’s financial regulator will seek the High Court’s permission to appeal a lower court’s ruling favoring fintech firm Block Earner, which found the company’s crypto-linked fixed-yield earning service is not…
A court decision in Australia could open the door to as much as $640 million in capital gains tax (CGT) refunds on Bitcoin transactions after a judge ruled that crypto…