Cryptocurrency: Its Role in the Financial Service Industry and Black-Market Transactions

American Bar Association 2024 Criminal Justice Section, 11th Annual London White Collar Crime Institute

• Turning the tide on crypto-fraudsters – weaponizing crypto in asset recovery;
• Parallel civil and criminal proceedings in the US;
• Implementation in France of the new Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and rules on market abuse involving crypto-assets;
• Implementation in the UK of recent enforcement tools such as crypto freezing and forfeiture orders.