This conference is the closing event of the FNR research project on Cryptocurrencies and crime (CRYPTOCRIME).
ABSTRACT
At a time where the EU is adopting an ad hoc regulatory framework for virtual assets and countries around the world implement the new FATF standards in this field, the need for consistency becomes of key importance for building coordinated strategies across regulation, supervision and criminal enforcement. The disruptive potential of the so-called ‘blockchain revolution’ in the banking and financial sector raises unprecedented challenges for the integrity and soundness of ever-growing peer-to-peer digitized markets. Against this background, the conference intends to provide an innovative cross-cutting analysis of the emerging sets of legal instruments designed to tackle a spreading phenomenon: abuses of crypto-assets for criminal purposes, most commonly named ‘cryptocrimes’ in Europe and beyond.