Progress can have its drawbacks, as the French stock market regulator, the nongovernmental Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), has noticed. According to the AMF ombudsman, digital asset-related mediations rose sharply in 2022, as did the number of registered digital asset service providers (DASPs).
In its newly released 2022 annual report, the AMF ombudsman included a section dedicated to digital assets for the first time. It noted that, while the total number of cases received by the ombudsman decreased from 1,964 in 2021 to 1,900 in 2022, mediation requests relating to digital assets rose from 44 to 54, with the number of the number of admissible cases rising from six to 17. At the same time, the number of registered DASPs rose from 28 to 59.