The key to harnessing the blockchain world is to know how to comply with regulations.
What will you learn from this book?✔ Fusing Tech With Finance - learn how digital technology is changing the financial world.
✔ The Right Approach to Compliance - understand what compliance is, what's your right compliance strategy and how you can benefit from it.
✔ The Financial Services Regulation - discover the strands of financial services regulation, the different sources of regulation and the regulatory models in the US and EU.
✔ EU Regulations Specific to Blockchain FinTech Companies - learn why and how the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, the Electronic Money Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation, the Payment Services Directive, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and other European regulations might apply to your blockchain FinTech business.
✔ Blockchain Compliance Routine Activities - discover the compliance routine activities most commonly undertaken by compliance officers in blockchain companies.
✔ Blockchain AML Routine Activities - discover the details of the Anti-Money Laundering routine activities you must always remember of.
✔ What to do When Things Go Wrong - learn what the consequences of a breach are and what happens if the regulator starts an investigation.
"The best way to guess the future is to create it. To do so, it is essential to learn more and have access to useful tools like this book" (Roberto Gorini, CEO of Noku AG)
What's inside
- The functions of banks
- The right approach to compliance
- An overview of financial services regulation
- Regulations you must understand
- Regulatory models
- EU regulations specific to blockchain FinTech companies
- Blockchain compliance & anti-money laundering routine activities
- The financial service industry: retail and wholesale products
- Blockchain compliance conundrums
- FinTech and FinTech-compliance dictionary
- Definitions from European legal texts
- ... and more
Who should read this book?✔ Compliance professionals. Compliance officers and professional operating in the blockchain FinTech world have found their handbook.
✔ Crypto-business' owners and directors. Senior management holds responsibilities in the compliance fields, even when the task of keeping their blockchain company compliant is delegated.
✔ Journalists and bloggers. Laypersons can't get their heads around compliance. Fortunately, this is a jargon-free book.
Knowing the ins and outs of regulation can enable you to create moats against other competitors and scale operations across a number of jurisdictions.
