MUMBAI: Vivek Aggarwal, the first Indian bureaucrat elected to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), said risks from virtual assets, which include crypto, remain unresolved, particularly because of decentralised peer-to-peer transactions and gaps in anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing regulation across jurisdictions. He called for stronger partnerships through FATF workstreams and at the national level to tackle virtual-asset risks and technology-enabled fraud, saying such threats can no longer be tackled by regulators alone.

Fintech firms must increase investments to combat new technological threats. Emerging technologies like AI pose significant risks to India's economic progress. The FATF…

MUMBAI: Vivek Aggarwal, the first Indian bureaucrat elected to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), said risks from virtual assets, which include crypto, remain unresolved,…