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Botswana's 2022 Act created a NBFIRA licensing regime for VASPs and initial token offerings, with governance, AML/CFT, custody, disclosure, conduct and enforcement provisions; it is retained here as historical law.
Current state: Historical NBFIRA licensing regime; official supplied PDF marks the 2022 Act as superseded/repealed, but the precise repeal commencement should be confirmed from the replacing gazette instrument
Jurisdiction
BotswanaRegulator
Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority
Law Type
Act
Status
RepealedOfficial Law Number
Act No. 3 of 2022
Official Title
Virtual Assets Act, 2022
Effective Date
February 25, 2022
Publication Date
February 25, 2022
Last Verified
August 26, 2026
Historically VASPs, exchanges, custodians, wallet and transfer providers, token issuers, controllers and customers in Botswana.
Historical licence and fit-and-proper requirements; governance, capital and systems; customer-asset safeguards; token-offer disclosure; AML/CFT; inspections, directions, suspension, revocation and offences. Do not present as the current operative statute.
Authorization rule: Historical licence and fit-and-proper requirements.
AML/CFT duties are material; consult the instrument and current implementing rules for scope, thresholds and filing mechanics.
Customer-asset, segregation, key-security or custody controls are within scope; verify detailed regulator rules.
Disclosure, offering or marketing controls are material and communications should be fair, clear and not misleading.
Regulator: Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority.
Not a tax code. Tax consequences depend on taxpayer, asset and transaction under the jurisdiction's current tax law.
Virtual Assets Act 2025
Botswana licenses VASPs and initial-token-offering issuers and applies governance, custody, disclosure and AML/CFT requirements.
Decision No. E/35/2023 on Virtual Asset Service Provider Registration, Cancellation of Registration and AML/CFT Instructions
Oman's FSA Decision No. E/35/2023 requires registration with the Oman Financial Services Authority (formerly Capital Market Authority) before carrying on covered virtual-asset activities in the Sultanate of Oman. It implements AML/CFT, governance and compliance requirements, and provides registration, cancellation and supervisory procedures. This is a VASP registration/AML regime and should be distinguished from any future full licensing framework.
Resoluções BCB nos. 519, 520 e 521, de 10 de novembro de 2025
Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) Resolutions No. 519, 520 and 521 of 10 November 2025 implement the virtual-asset regulatory framework under the supervision of the Central Bank. Resolution 519 establishes VASP authorisation procedures; Resolution 520 sets activity, governance, controls, security and conduct requirements; Resolution 521 integrates specified virtual-asset operations into Brazil's foreign-exchange and international-capital rules. Commencement is staged during 2026 — verify the effective date for each resolution separately.
Utility Token Offering Act, 2018 (Act No. 4 of 2018)
Anguilla's Utility Token Offering Act 2018 (Act No. 4/2018) is one of the world's earliest purpose-built utility-token offering frameworks. It creates registration requirements for utility-token issuers, sets offering, disclosure and issuer-qualification conditions, and works with AML regulations and later amendments. Verify the most recent consolidation — a 2020 amendment may affect the effective/status fields.
Resolución SBS N.° 02648-2024 — Normas para la Gestión de Riesgos de LA/FT aplicable a PSAVs
Peru's SBS Resolution No. 02648-2024 applies AML/CFT risk-management and compliance duties to virtual asset service providers (PSAVs) supervised by UIF-Peru. It requires customer due diligence, recordkeeping and suspicious-transaction reporting. The resolution also contains a travel-rule chapter, but commencement of the travel rule has been deferred to 1 January 2029 through a later amendment — the travel rule is not currently effective.
Gesetz zur Digitalisierung des Finanzmarktes (Finanzmarktdigitalisierungsgesetz — FinmadiG)
Germany's Financial Market Digitalisation Act (FinmadiG) aligns German financial-market law with MiCA and DORA, establishes national supervisory powers and enforcement mechanisms for BaFin, and addresses the transition from existing German crypto-custody regulation. It applies to German financial entities, CASPs and other firms affected by MiCA/DORA national implementation.
