French Financial Regulators Blacklist Crypto Trading Websites
Source: HJBC/Adobe France’s top financial regulators have added the crypto trading web sites 24cryptoforextrading.net, silveriz.fr, and cryptoneyx.io to a blacklist of firms operating in France “without proper authorization.” The list is co-curated by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), France’s stock market trading regulator. It is co-authored by the Banque de France’s Prudential Supervisory and Resolution Authority (ACPR). The ACPR polices France’s banking and insurance sectors. In an update posted on the ACPR website yesterday, the regulators wrote: “In 2022, the AMF and the ACPR added 49 names to the list of sites that are not authorized to offer Forex investments, vs 61 in 2021, and 2 names in the cryptoasset derivatives category, down significantly compared to 2021 with 24 web sites added.” The blacklist comprises “unauthorized” firms offering crypto derivatives in France. It al...