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Israel to monitor cryptocurrency-based online-gambling banking transactions

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Israel has is all set to introduce new rules that will nudge banks into stricter monitoring of cryptocurrency transactions, especially those related to online gambling.

Israel’s Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority, a part of the Ministry of Justice, offered an initial version of the new legislation for public scrutiny.  The public can comment on the draft legislation until June 13. The draft lists a number of types of cryptocurrency transactions “that may appear to be unusual.” It also stipulates which of the Israeli financial institutions must monitor and report such doubtful transactions. Israel’s cryptocurrency trading platforms are included in the list.

Among these potentially “unusual” transactions are the “transfer of virtual currencies to online gambling platforms and sites.” Online gambling is strictly forbidden in Israel, despite the country being a popular base for online gambling companies to base their technology and support staff.

There are 36 other “unusual” crypto activities cited in the draft, including any individual transfer to a digital wallet over NIS5k (US$1,400), a ludicrously low threshold. Even the trust-free zone that is the United States sets the threshold for suspicious transaction reports at $10k.

Attempts to split up a transfer to get under the NIS5k threshold, described as a “sequence of actions of the same service recipient whose purpose appears to be to circumvent the reporting requirement,” will raise similar red flags.

Financial entities will also have to keep five years’ worth of records on their customers’ crypto activity, including their digital wallet addresses, IP addresses, and all details of their transaction history. The use of anonymous currencies such as Zcash and Monero will remain forbidden.

As draconian as the new rules might be, they will provide some badly needed clarity to Israel’s crypto sector and some measure of assurance that financial institutions are acting within the law in processing crypto transactions. Israeli banks have been skittish about dealing with crypto, even in the face of court orders preventing banks from closing crypto business accounts.

 

Source: CalvinAyre.com

Niji Narayan has been in the writing industry for well over a decade or so. He prides himself as one of the few survivors left in the world who have actually mastered the impossible art of copy editing. Niji graduated in Physics and obtained his Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism. He has always interested in sports writing and travel writing. He has written for numerous websites and his in-depth analytical articles top sports magazines like Cricket Today and Sports Today. He reports gaming industry headlines from all around the globe.

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