A brief look at the top stories around North America in the past week…

The leaders of the United States' Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have issued a joint statement to remind persons engaged in activities involving digital assets of their anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). AML/CFT obligations apply to entities that the BSA defines as “financial institutions,” such as futures commission merchants and introducing brokers obligated ...