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Weekly Roundup: IRS Targets Digital Currency, EU Lawmakers Blacklist Host of Nations, and More

Ten IRS criminal investigators will review suspected attempts to use digital currencies to evade taxes, and the division’s chief said that criminal cases are on the way, Bloomberg reported. More Some financial technology services firms, or fintechs, are looking to bypass U.S. state charter requirements by obtaining an industrial loan company charter, The Wall Street Journal reported. More EU lawmakers narrowly backed the European Commission’s decision to add Tunisia to an EU blacklist of countries with weak anti-money laundering regimes alongside Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago. More Tunisia’s central bank governor, who is accused of intentionally “turning a blind...

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