The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) will soon go into effect and it will inadvertently boost the cryptocurrency industry in the EU. Under the new directive, cryptocurrency-related companies will be treated like any other business.
The blockchain sector has always seen regulation as the greatest roadblock. However, the latest installment of anti-money laundering laws in the European Union could change things.
The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) was officially signed into law in July 2018 and came into force on Jan 10 of this year. It groups all virtual assets and their providers as ‘obliged entities.’ According to Forbes writer Pawel Kuskowski, this places the cryptocurrency sector in the same legal category as banks, payment processors, gaming, and gambling-related services. In effect, this means that cryptocurrency-related businesses will be treated like any other.
However, the AMLD5 goes further in boosting protections for the cryptocurrency industry. Banks now have to provide valid, individual justification to refuse services to a particular customer. It cannot simply ban services with cryptocurrency-related payment processors or companies. This will mean that millions more will finally be able to purchase virtual assets without bank meddling.
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https://beincrypto.com/new-eu-law-will-make-it-impossible-for-banks-to-ban-cryptocurrency-related-transactions/For the crypto community and the crypto industry as a whole, this is of course very good news, but you still need to understand why the EC decided to make concessions for crypto. As far as I know in the EU, as in the USA, the situation is very poor. You may have heard of the recession. So, the EC, like the United States, is pumping up its economy with money that you yourself understand are especially worthless. All this leads to the fact that very soon an international economic crisis may occur, where countries and their money will collapse. Perhaps it is this EC directive that is the lifeline, not only for the EC itself, but in a sense the banks themselves. So we need to get ready for the fact that we will soon be swapping 1 - 2 years, there will be big changes in the financial sector in the world and cryptocurrencies will play their part in solving the problems that have arisen.