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AML and CFT Compliance in Virtual Asset Markets
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Virtual assets have moved rapidly from niche innovation to mainstream financial products. Their global reach, programmability, and decentralised nature offer tremendous opportunities for investment, payments, and financial inclusion. Yet these same features create unique vulnerabilities—pseudonymity, cross border mobility, and rapid transaction speed—which criminals can exploit for money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and cybercrime. In response, regulators worldwide—led by the Financial Action Task Force—have strengthened standards to ensure that virtual asset service providers operate with the same level of integrity and accountability as traditional financial institutions. Hong Kong has embraced this direction, implementing comprehensive licensing regimes under the AMLO and SFO, introducing stablecoin regulation, and reinforcing obligations around due diligence, monitoring, governance, and investor protection. Today’s seminar will guide you through this landscape: the global regulatory drivers, Hong Kong’s evolving framework, key AML/CFT risks, and the practical responsibilities placed on VASPs, dealers, and compliance officers. We will discuss case studies, emerging technologies such as blockchain analytics, and future trends that will shape the next phase of Web3 and digital asset development.
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