The central bank of Spain is introducing new registration guidelines for local virtual currency service providers, or VASPs, including banking institutions.
The Bank of Spain has issued instructions on VASP registration for Anti-Money Laundering, or AML, purposes, requiring institutions to submit their registration requests through an electronic registry, Cointelegraph en Español reported Oct. 25.
Issuing the guidelines on Oct. 19, the Spanish central bank noted that the obligation to sign up in the registry applies to “all individuals and institutions providing virtual currency exchange services” like cryptocurrency trading and custody services.
The regulator stressed that VASPs will have to register “regardless of whether they are also
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