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National regulators across the EU must guard against attempts by cryptocurrency platforms to avoid anti-money laundering supervision amid the rollout of a comprehensive, bloc-wide regulatory regime for the sector, the European Banking Authority warned Thursday. In a 28-page report, the EBA outlined several strategies that some virtual asset service providers, or VASPs, have used to evade AML-related scrutiny from governments, such as regulatory arbitrage, opaque ownership and governance structures, and complex arrangements with other platforms to access customers in countries where they lack authorization. "There is a risk that such attempts may continue under the new regime, with a significant...