When criminals abuse the blockchain: Establishing personal jurisdiction in a decentralised environment

C Watters - Laws, 2023 - mdpi.com
In August of 2022, the United States Department of Treasury sanctioned the virtual currency
mixer Tornado Cash, an open-source and fully decentralised piece of software running on …

Model Framework for Consumer Protection and Crypto-Exchanges Regulation

AP Alekseenko - Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cross-border insolvency of crypto-exchanges, cyber-risks, transnational character of
activities with cryptocurrencies, and financial frauds on the Internet are among the key …

Digital Gold or Digital Security? Unravelling the Legal Fabric of Decentralised Digital Assets

C Watters - Commodities, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper offers an in-depth exploration into the intricate world of decentralized digital
assets (DDAs), shedding light on their categorization as currencies, commodities, or …

Financial technologies and financial crime: Key developments and areas for future research

L de Koker, D Goldbarsht - Financial technology and the law: Combating …, 2022 - Springer
Financial technologies, the ways in which they can be abused by criminals, and the
responses by regulators, industry and law enforcement are changing fast. This is a dynamic …

The Crime-Crypto Nexus: Nuancing Risk Across Crypto-Crime Transactions

R Hamilton, C Leuprecht - Financial Crime and the Law: Identifying and …, 2024 - Springer
Cryptocurrency is supercharging illicit activities by transnational criminal networks, including
terrorism, drug trafficking, pornography, sanctions evasion, and ransomware. Yet …

Dancing in the Dark: Terrorist Financing Via the Dark Web

D Goldbarsht - Financial Crime and the Law: Identifying and Mitigating …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the ways in which terrorist organisations manage their assets is critical to
depleting those organisations of their funds and, ultimately, disrupting their activities …

Supporting the Combating of Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction with AI Technologies☆

L de Koker - 2023 - opal.latrobe.edu.au
The anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism compliance obligations
are becoming increasingly complex for large banks. To meet these obligations, these banks …

[PDF][PDF] How Does a Data Code Become Taxable? A Brief View from A Spanish Law Perspective

JAF Amor - 2022 - ceur-ws.org
The evolution about what could be an expression of taxable wealth has changed along
history. It has expanded from land possession to more sophisticated intangible items that …