U.K. officials plan to bring cryptocurrency firms, including third-party exchanges as well as peer-to-peer platforms, under anti-money laundering standards "significantly beyond" those mandated by the European Union.
Exchanges of security-related data with the European Union will continue at or near their current rate after the United Kingdom leaves the bloc next year, a government minister said Tuesday.
The U.K. government’s plans for a unilateral sanctions regime after Great Britain leaves the European Union in 2019 extend beyond the necessary reforms and will create an additional compliance burden for international firms, say analysts.