Global Digital Finance, together with its community of industry expert members, is driving the acceleration and adoption of digital finance to support the next era of digital commerce.
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The OECD Working Party 10 met at the end of September and discussed critical aspects of the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and the Common Reporting Standard (CRS).Topics on the agenda included: At the same time, jurisdictions are rapidly publishing draft guidance and final guidance for implementation. With only a few months until these rules take […]
22 Oct 2025
22 October 2025
Blog by Carl Schonander GDF Head of Americas Regulatory Affairs. GDF Board Member Jeff Bandman hosted a deeply substantive conversation with Wyoming State Bank Commissioner Albert Forkner on July 19, 2021. If you missed it, you can view the recording here (link). Forkner emphasized that to be a state digital assets leader, appropriate legislation, regulation, and supervisory […]
22 July 2021
GDF has submitted a response to the public consultation on FATF draft guidance on a risk-based approach to virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. Our cross-industry expert AML working group led by Malcolm Wright and Nicky Gomez, and now comprising 82 members has worked tirelessly to provide a supportive response to the consultation. Huge […]
22 April 2021
Michael Coletta, Head of Blockchain & Emerging Tech Innovation and Strategy, London Stock Exchange Group Originally published in the GDF Annual Report 2020 The COVID pandemic brought important pause and perspective across the board, and while governments, businesses, and citizens looked for any solution to the litany of issues faced, technology and innovation came bubbling to the surface […]
1 April 2021
European Parliament Rapporteur has tabled draft amendments to the proposed Market in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) See a translation of the draft here See the output from the GDF MiCA Working Group here Following the Commission Proposal of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) in September 2020, European Parliament Rapporteur Stefan Berger has tabled his Draft Report […]
1 April 2021
David Birch Originally published in the GDF Annual Report 2020 There has been a really big change in the environment around digital identity over the past year. The coronavirus catastrophe has required many individuals, companies and organizations who never had to do business online before to shift to the new normal in double-quick time. This in […]
1 April 2021
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Watch the full interview here Jeff Bandman, GDF Board Member, was joined by Commissioner Herster Peirce on the Global Leaders Series, in partnership with GBBC. Prior to joining the SEC, Commissioner Peirce conducted research on the regulation of financial markets at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was a […]
1 April 2021
Leveraging technology to create human-centred economies Christopher Holmes, Lord Holmes of Richmond Originally published in the GDF Annual Report 2020. Covid is an indiscriminate infector yet discriminating deliverer of death. My heart goes out to all those affected by the virus and to all those souls taken before their time. The crisis has also exposed much which […]
1 April 2021
Led by Lisa Zarlenga, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, & Krystle Gan, Axiom In July 2020, the Tax Working Group published a working paper on the Tax Treatment of Cryptoassets, the industry’s first comprehensive review of the tax issues facing digital assets Rather than engaging in a country-bycountry analysis of tax laws, the paper looked novel issues specific […]
1 April 2021
Global Digital Finance, together with its community of industry expert members, is driving the acceleration and adoption of digital finance to support the next era of digital commerce.