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View More NewsIn brief AUSTRAC suspended Cryptolink’s VASP registration for three months from August 9, shutting its 96 crypto ATMs. The trigger was missed “basic reporting obligations,” especially threshold transaction reports, plus ignored information requests. It follows an October 2025 enforceable undertaking and a $56,340 fine the company already paid. Australia’s financial-crime regulator AUSTRAC has pulled the plug on the country’s largest Bitcoin and crypto ATM network.The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre said on Monday it suspended Cryptolink Pty Ltd’s registration as a Virtual Asset Service Provider, or VASP, for three months, effective August 9, after the company failed to keep…
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In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian Embassy in London. There, Ambassador Manar Dabbas discussed the unfolding regional catastrophe with the composure of someone reviewing the previous night’s football scores. Some 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been murdered; around 250 had been taken hostage into Gaza; and pro-terror rhetoric was spreading across the world. But at this juncture, Dabbas emphasised the importance of de-escalation and the need for Israeli restraint. With respect to Jordan’s position, he remarked: “We sometimes joke among ourselves that we are…
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