U.S. senators call for updating U.S. bank secrecy laws to combat cryptocurrency threat

12/08 11:20

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US Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat from Massachusetts) has called for an update to the country's bank secrecy laws to address the "threat" of cryptocurrency. She stated: "We need to update it again because there are new threats. It's cryptocurrency." She claimed that cryptocurrency is being used for terrorist financing and drug trafficking.

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