Tag: financial exclusion

Between March and July 2023, the EU AML/CFT Global Facility co-hosted and sponsored a series of regional consultations for nonprofit organisations (NPOs), FATF Regional Style Bodies, and Financial Intelligence Units with the aim of collecting, documenting, and analysing practices of meaningful engagement between the NPO sector and relevant (inter)governmental stakeholders. On 26-27 September 2023 in […]

From 6 to 9 September 2023, the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation Lyudmyla Kozlovska took part in the ‘TABConf2023 — A Technical Bitcoin Conference‘ in the US city of Atlanta. As part of the event, she gave an interview to the largest educational platform dedicated to Bitcoin — Area Bitcoin Education.  “I am here […]

The EU has become one of the first jurisdictions to introduce comprehensive regulations on crypto-assets. Ukraine has announced its ambition to become a “pioneer” in implementing the European version of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, MiCA. As the third country in the world in terms of cryptocurrency usage, Ukraine has been working on the regulation […]

President of the Open Dialogue Foundation Lyudmyla Kozlovska participated in the largest and most influential event dedicated to Bitcoin in Europe — BTC Prague 2023, which was held in June in the Czech capital. On the first day of the conference, 8 June 2023, she spoke on the panel ‘Regulations Are Not The Solution‘, which […]

(…) The event included an interesting panel entitled “Regulations Are Not The Solution”. The three speakers included: Jan Procházka, attorney at law and partner at Deloitte Legal, Giacomo Zucco, Bitcoin entrepreneur and consultant, and Lyudmyla Kozlovska, human rights activist and Bitcoin promoter. The panel was moderated by journalist and podcaster Bill Wirtz. At the beginning […]

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At the beginning of June 2023, the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation Lyudmyla Kozlovska moderated the panel discussion Bitcoin Is Justice at the annual conference BTC Prague — Europe’s most important event dedicated to Bitcoin. The panellists shared their experiences of financial exclusion and gave examples of how Bitcoin helps to fight oppressive regimes […]

From political dissidents to conflict refugees to people without formal identification, centralised financial platforms have excluded a swath of disfavoured, but not necessarily criminal, user categories. To what degree is crypto a viable alternative for financially excluded individuals and organisations? Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, answered this question at the CoinDesk Consensus […]

Members of the European Parliament have voted on the first regulatory framework that will directly affect cryptocurrencies. The Czech Pirate Party opposed the proposal, claiming that it would lead to mandatory registration or identification of cryptocurrency owners. This will pose a problem, for example, for the funding of dissidents such as Russian opposition figure Alexei […]

On 17 and 18 April 2023, a delegation led by the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) conducted an advocacy mission to Rome to raise awareness on the abuse of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT) rules perpetrated by authoritarian regimes as a tool for transnational repression, and to expose how Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan […]

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Read the full article: blockchainjournal.com See also: Crypto’s role in aid to Ukraine: Kozlovska at the Blockchain Summit (March 22, 2023) as well as other interviews with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: her story, her struggles, and her achievements (February 23, 2024) Lugano’s Plan ₿. Defending Human Rights with Bitcoin: Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska […]

On Wednesday 22 March 2023, the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, held a hearing regarding the activities of the Bank of Italy.  Among others, Governor Ignazio Visco talked about the recent development regarding AML/CFT regulation. In 2022, for example, the Anti-Money Laundering Supervision and Regulation Unit was established to monitor AML compliance of financial intermediaries […]

Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, was one of the speakers at the Blockchain Summit on “How Blockchain Impacts Humanitarian Aid and Charitable Giving”, held on 21 March 2023 in Washington DC. Within two days of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Open Dialogue Foundation, together […]

In March 2023, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF), gave an interview to Juan Cienfuegos, founder of BitCorner — the first Salvadorian podcast dedicated to Bitcoin. During the interview, she spoke about Bitcoin’s role in the field of human rights, the CBDC, the war in Ukraine and financial exclusion. Lyudmyla Kozlovska told […]