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New York DFS Fines Robinhood $30M for “Significant” Cybersecurity Violations

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Dissent

Linn F. Freedman of Robinson + Cole writes:

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced its first ever penalty against a cryptocurrency platform this week, with a whopping $30 million fine assessed against Robinhood Crypto, LLC (RHC) for what it described as “significant failures in the areas of bank secrecy act/anti-money laundering obligations and cybersecurity that resulted in violations of the Department’s Virtual Currency Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 200), Money Transmitter Regulation (3 NYCRR Part 417), Transaction Monitoring Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 504), and Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500).

Read more at The National Law Review.

A copy of the consent order can be found on DFS’s website.

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