On July 5th, the European Banking Authority (EBA) took an important step to strengthen its anti-money laundering (AML) measures by announcing the extension of its travel rule guidelines to crypto service providers and their intermediaries. As of December 30th, cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the European Union (EU) will be subject to Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (Travel Rule Guidelines), which requires the reporting of information on the transfer of funds and crypto assets. Once the regulatio...