Bank of Russia monitors businesses with crypto exchangers-Finance
Bank of Russia monitors businesses with crypto exchangers-Finance
The Central Bank asks Russian banks for details on crypto -related transactions
at the end of December the central bank of Russia (CBR) Transactions to obtain information about money transfers in connection with crypto-exchange websites. These are mostly payments between private individuals, including transactions with maps and wallets that are registered in the name of false persons.
The regulatory authority calls on the banking institutions to provide details about their interactions with crypto exchangers such as BTC-BMENNIK.com, cleanbtc.ru, 100bitcoins.com, ultrachaange.biz, 1wn.kz, cryptex24.com, Openchange.cash, xchange. Cash, vexel.com and betatransfer.org, reveals a new report by the commercial.
The leading business day newspaper quotes sources from the crypto industry that claim that over 400 crypto exchangers now offer services for Russian residents on the Internet. Their estimates assume that the monthly volume of the excessive cryptom market in Russia and neighboring countries is around $ 1.3 billion. The Russian Federation is about half of the total amount.
The crypto Exchanges often list the names and logos of established financial institutions and payment providers such as Sberbank, VTB, Tinkoff Bank, Western Union, Webmoney and Koronapay as their partners. Two of them, Webmoney and Koronapay, already have every collaboration with the Coin Trade platforms.
crypto exchanger work without registration, says CBR
The Bank of Russia points out that the Tauscher Services provide for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies without registering their activities or entering into financial obligations towards their customers. At the same time, the transactions are carried out anonymously without examining their purpose and origin of the funds to evaluate risks such as money laundering.
The currency authority, known for your Hard attitude For cryptocurrencies, it also found that the trading pages often do not accept payments on their actual accounts, but on bank cards and digital items that were issued to private individuals. This "carries the risk of losing money and involved in fraudulent systems," warned the regulatory authority.
In a recent interview Zeitung Rossiyskaya Gazeta noticed the head of the investigation committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin that the status of online platforms that offer options for anonymous purchase and sale of crypto still had to be determined. He also called for the introduction of mandatory identification for all users of cryptocurrencies in Russia.
The authorities have followed the Krypto exchanger for the past few years. Part of the problem is that a number of crypto -related activities, including trade, remain unregulated even after the "On Digital Financial Assets" law was adopted. A Working group now prepares suggestions to fill the gaps. Discussions about the future of crypto-exchanges should end in 2022, according to the deputy director of the rosfin monitoring Wachhund Herman neglyad was cited as I said last month.
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