GAFILAT does not itself license or register virtual asset service providers (PSAV); it is a regional AML/CFT coordination body that issues guidance urging member states to implement FATF Recommendation 15. Adoption of licensing/registration regimes across the 18 GAFILAT member states remains highly uneven, with only a handful of countries reporting concrete measures at the time of the 2025 sectoral risk assessment.
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GAFILAT applies the FATF-derived, undifferentiated 'Activos Virtuales' (virtual assets) category regionally for AML/CFT purposes; there is no GAFILAT-wide taxonomy distinguishing security tokens, utility tokens, stablecoins, e-money tokens or NFTs. Any such classification is delegated entirely to national regimes (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador), which must be researched at the member-state JID level.
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Neither GAFILAT nor CEMLA publishes a regional framework specifically addressing staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenization. Coverage of these categories at the LATAM regional level is a genuine gap; any obligations exist only at the national JID level (e.g., Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico).
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CEMLA's stablecoin research finds low but growing stablecoin adoption across the Latin America and Caribbean region, and reports that most participating jurisdictions currently lack a specific legal framework or supervisory guidance for stablecoins. No GAFILAT or CEMLA instrument establishes regional issuance authorisation, reserve, or redemption-right requirements; this is advisory/academic research, not a binding regime.
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GAFILAT's regional risk assessment does not create binding consumer-protection rules, but its threat and vulnerability analysis flags fraud and investment scams, and cyberattacks/ransomware demanding payment in virtual assets, as very high-risk phenomena affecting users in the region, and calls for strengthened mitigation measures by both PSAV and financial institutions.
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GAFILAT does not set tax policy; no regional capital gains, income tax, VAT/GST or withholding regime exists for virtual assets at this level. The 2025 sectoral risk assessment does, however, flag tax-evasion risk associated with taxpayers accepting virtual-asset payments to obscure the territorial origin of income.
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GAFILAT's August 2023 regulatory guide addresses cross-border virtual-asset transfers through implementation guidance on the FATF travel rule and the associated 'sunrise issue' (uneven cross-border implementation timing) for member states adopting FATF Recommendation 16 for virtual asset service providers. This is implementation guidance, not a directly binding regional statute; national travel-rule adoption varies.
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Crypto AML/CFT content is out of scope for this baseline: the crypto consumer subscribes to the FIM aml_ctf module, which is GAFILAT's core mandate (regional ML/TF risk assessment of virtual assets and VASPs across its 18 member states, guidance on investigation/seizure of virtual assets, and the August 2023 regulatory guide). Substantive AML/CFT findings are captured there, not duplicated in this crypto DR baseline.
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