On the 4th of December 2024, the European Banking Authority launched a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for crypto-asset service providers to appoint a central contact point to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations of host Member States. The draft RTS set out the criteria to determine the circumstances where such appointment is appropriate, as well as the functions of those central contact points.

The deadline to submit comments to the consultation paper is the 4th of February 2025.