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#MiCA was not the only proposal completed last week, as 🇪🇺 institutions also finalised the Transfers-of-Funds Regulation (TFR).
The #TFR is meant to implement the @FATFWatch's #travelrule for transfers of #cryptoassets in the EU.
As always, check our 🧵for details:
1/18
The #TFR is meant to implement the @FATFWatch's #travelrule for transfers of #cryptoassets in the EU.
As always, check our 🧵for details:
1/18
First, a bit of #context:
The original Transfers-of-Funds Regulation was established in 2015 and introduced the requirement for financial institutions to accompany each #transfer of funds with verified information about the originator and beneficiary of the transfer.
2/18
The original Transfers-of-Funds Regulation was established in 2015 and introduced the requirement for financial institutions to accompany each #transfer of funds with verified information about the originator and beneficiary of the transfer.
2/18
As part of its 2020 Action Plan on preventing #moneylaundering and #terrorism financing, the @EU_Commission put forward a legislative proposal for a recast of the original #TFR text with the main objective of expanding traceability requirements to crypto-assets.
3/18
3/18
Latest UPDATE on the #TFR (Travel Rule) trilogue:
EU institutions are working to finalise the #TFR text to implement the #travelrule in Europe. Please find below the latest details. The aimed-for deadline for conclusion is still the first week of June.
1/9
EU institutions are working to finalise the #TFR text to implement the #travelrule in Europe. Please find below the latest details. The aimed-for deadline for conclusion is still the first week of June.
1/9
Key issues on table:
The provisions introduced by the @Europarl_EN requiring #verification of information for each transfer of assets, the additional requirements applied to transfers to #unhosted wallets and the #blacklist of non-compliant entities.
2/9
The provisions introduced by the @Europarl_EN requiring #verification of information for each transfer of assets, the additional requirements applied to transfers to #unhosted wallets and the #blacklist of non-compliant entities.
2/9
In the past weeks, the @EUCouncil has taken onboard the concerns from the blockchain & crypto #industry, as well as those of regulators and competent #authorities (!), that flagged the impracticality and unintended consequences these provisions would have.
3/9
3/9
🚨About the Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR), follow the below thread 🧵👇
#ECON and #LIBE committees approved, today, the mandate for negotiations on the TFR. As @EPPGroup shadow rapporteur for the file, I think it is important to make myself clear on our position. 1/16
Our priorities: 1) insert crypto-assets in the scope of TFR in a way that is innovation-friendly and avoid unproportioned compliance burden for companies and citizens; 2) safeguard a proper level playing field between wire and crypto transfers; 2/16
