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New York Governor Kathy Hochul kicked off the new year with a flourish, revealing on January 2nd her Consumer Protection & Affordability Agenda (the Agenda) as the first proposal for her 2024 State of the State.
The Instant Payments Proposal has been published in the Official Journal and revisions to the PSD III package have been adopted by the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
On 7 February 2024, the European Parliament adopted at first reading the Instant Payments Regulation.
On 29 January 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launched a public consultation on its draft guidelines on the conditions and criteria for the qualification of crypto-assets as financial instruments.
On December 21, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released its much-anticipated final rulemaking on access to the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reported to FinCEN (the Access Rule) as part of its continued implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA).
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