Digital Currency Messaging Standard for FATF Compliance

Digital currency companies are responding to anti-money laundering requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The latest response to the requirements involved the development of a new messaging standard. The new messaging standard is known as IVSM101. Two months to the end of 2018, the FATF was able to adopt changes to its recommendations to explicitly clarify that they apply to financial activities involving virtual assets (VA). This led to the expansion of the scope of the recommendations to apply to…