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Last updated 2026-09-21 · 8 categories · 17 sourced findings · 15 sources in the cumulative register

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Peru's crypto Travel Rule obligation entered into force on 1 August 2026, closing the grace period attached to Chapter VIII of SBS Resolution 02648-2024. Virtual Asset Service Providers domiciled or incorporated in Peru, together with Peru branches of foreign VASPs, must now transmit originator and beneficiary information to counterparty VASPs, a binding obligation that completes the AML dimension of the PSAV framework first put in place in 2023-24. This is a high-confidence, primary-instrument-anchored development, distinguishable from a discretionary regulatory action because its timing followed directly and predictably from the two-year grace-period clock embedded in the original 2024 resolution. The obligation specifically requires transmission of information aligned with FATF Recommendations 15 and 16 covering virtual-asset transfers, and its completion means Peru's VASP sector now carries the same baseline AML transactional-transparency obligation FATF has pushed jurisdictions to adopt globally. Whether smaller, domestically-focused PSAVs have in practice built compliant Travel Rule transmission infrastructure ahead of the deadline is not established in this cycle's evidence base, and should be treated as an open operational question. This is the fourth consecutive cycle in which Peru's crypto AML architecture has advanced incrementally while its market-conduct and licensing framework has remained static.

Other Developments

Licensing regime remains AML-only. Neither SMV nor SBS issues an operating licence for crypto exchanges or PSAVs as of 2026; the sector operates under a registration-and-AML-compliance model rather than a prudential or market-conduct licensing regime, a stable, high-confidence negative finding unchanged this cycle.

Token classification remains unaddressed. Cryptoassets are not recognised as legal tender or classified under any securities or e-money category in Peruvian law, a stable finding this cycle with no statutory taxonomy in prospect.

Stablecoin use growing without a regulatory framework. BCRP's March 2026 national payments-system report documents growing stablecoin use for cross-border payments and value transfer, without BCRP imposing issuance or reserve rules; this is a market observation rather than a regulatory development.

Tax treatment remains at proposal stage. SUNAT signalled plans during 2025 to amend the Income Tax Law to capture cryptoasset gains and improve data access, but no enacted amendment was confirmed this cycle; this is an assessed-confidence finding reflecting genuine uncertainty about whether the proposal has advanced.

Framework crypto bill remains stalled. Bill 1042/2021-CR, which would create a formal RUPIC VASP registration regime, remains stalled in committee since March 2025 with no enactment timeline confirmed this cycle.

Cross-Monitor Connections

The Travel Rule's entry into force is the same underlying development the Financial Integrity Monitor reads through its AML-architecture lens; that monitor's coverage addresses the AML-compliance and obligated-subject dimensions of this same obligation, while this brief's interest is in what it does, and does not, establish for Peru's crypto licensing and token-classification posture. Readers with an AML-compliance-specific interest should refer to the Financial Integrity Monitor's coverage rather than this brief, consistent with the subscribed aml_cft_regime slot arrangement between these two consumers for this jurisdiction. This division of labour reflects the broader pattern across this jurisdiction's consumer set: each monitor foregrounds the reading of the same underlying evidence most relevant to its own audience.

Outlook

The single variable most likely to change Peru's crypto regulatory posture is the fate of Bill 1042/2021-CR. If the bill advances, it would introduce Peru's first formal VASP licensing and registration regime; absent that movement, expect continued operation under the current AML-only registration model, with the Travel Rule's entry into force likely standing as the last structural AML milestone for some cycles. A further item to monitor is whether BCRP's observed stablecoin-usage growth prompts any future regulatory response distinct from the AML perimeter already in place; no such response is indicated in this cycle's evidence base. Watch for confirmation of the bill's committee status beyond its known March 2025 posture, and for any UIF-Perú guidance addressing smaller PSAVs' practical Travel Rule implementation.

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Peru has no comprehensive crypto-asset licensing statute. The only enacted, crypto-specific registration obligation is AML-driven: Virtual Asset Service Providers (Proveedores de Servicios de Activos Virtuales, PSAV) domiciled or incorporated in Peru must register as obligated subjects with the UIF-Perú (a specialized unit of the SBS) under Resolución S.B.S. N° 02648-2024, which the resolution itself states covers FATF Recommendation 15 AML/CFT scope only and does not regulate the underlying technology or the commercial activities/operations of PSAV. A separate securities-characterisation perimeter exists under the SMV's general Ley del Mercado de Valores: token offerings that meet the 'valor mobiliario' test fall within SMV's public-offering registration regime on a case-by-case basis. A bill to establish comprehensive VASP licensing has circulated in the Peruvian Congress for extended periods without full enactment; this must not be cited as enacted law.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (3)

T1 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — Virtual asset service providers (PSAV) domiciled or incorporated in Peru must register as obligated subjects with the UIF-Perú and designate a compliance officer under Resolución S.B.S. N° 02648-2024, which covers PSAV under FATF Recommendation 15 and does not regulate the underlying technology or PSAV commercial activities.retrieved 2026-08-05M4bindingin force
T2 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — A bill to establish comprehensive virtual-asset-service-provider licensing has circulated in the Peruvian Congress for extended periods without full enactment; no comprehensive crypto-asset licensing statute is currently in force.retrieved 2026-08-05M3non-bindingexpected to resolve as the cycle horizon moves
T1 · Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV) — Token offerings that meet the 'valor mobiliario' (security) definition under the Ley del Mercado de Valores fall within SMV's public-offering registration perimeter on a case-by-case basis; the SMV has publicly stated no specific regulation exists in Peru backing crypto/ICO offers generally.retrieved 2026-08-05M3bindingin force

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Peru has no bespoke statutory taxonomy for token types. The PSAV/AML framework defines 'activos virtuales' broadly for AML purposes without a technology- or function-based classification, and the SMV applies the pre-existing general securities-law 'valor mobiliario' test case-by-case to determine whether a given token offering falls within its perimeter.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (2)

T1 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — Peru has no statutory taxonomy distinguishing token types (e.g., utility, security, stablecoin, e-money); virtual assets are defined broadly for AML purposes under the PSAV framework without reference to technological function.retrieved 2026-08-05M3non-binding
T1 · Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV) — Tokens whose structure meets the 'valor mobiliario' (security) definition under the Ley del Mercado de Valores fall within SMV's securities regulatory perimeter on a case-by-case basis; there is no published bright-line crypto-specific test.retrieved 2026-08-05M3bindingin force

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No Peruvian statute or regulation specifically addresses staking, DeFi lending, decentralized-exchange activity, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenisation. General civil and tax law may apply by default but no dedicated on-chain-activity framework has been identified.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (1)

T2 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — Peru has not enacted activity-specific regulation for staking, DeFi lending, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenisation; no dedicated legal framework exists for on-chain activities as of the current dispatch date.retrieved 2026-08-05M2non-bindinga fact about the regime

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No Peruvian statute or regulator issuance addresses stablecoins specifically (issuance authorisation, reserve requirements, redemption rights, disclosure, or systemic designation). Stablecoins would fall under the same undifferentiated 'activos virtuales' AML definition as other virtual assets, with no payments-specific or e-money-adjacent stablecoin regime identified.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (1)

T1 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — Peru has no stablecoin-specific issuance authorisation, reserve, redemption, disclosure, or systemic-designation regime; stablecoins are treated, if at all, under the generic AML 'activos virtuales' definition.retrieved 2026-08-05M2non-bindinga fact about the regime

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The principal consumer-facing instrument identified is the SMV's public communiqué warning investors that no specific regulation in Peru backs or supervises the offer or promotion of virtual currencies, cryptocurrencies, or tokens (including ICOs), and that firms making such offers are unsupervised. The communiqué also references Article 2 of Ley 30050 in connection with advertising/offering restrictions, though the precise scope of that cross-reference requires further verification.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (2)

T1 · Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV) — The SMV has publicly warned that there is no specific regulation in Peru backing or supervising the offer or promotion of virtual currencies, cryptocurrencies, or tokens, and that companies making such offers or promotions are not under supervision.retrieved 2026-08-05M3non-binding
T1 · Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV) — The SMV communiqué references Article 2 of Ley 30050 in connection with restrictions on advertising or offering of financial instruments to the public in the context of crypto/ICO promotion; the precise operative scope of this cross-reference has not been independently verified.retrieved 2026-08-05M2non-bindingour coverage gap, expected to resolve on a re-run

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No crypto-specific tax statute or SUNAT ruling was located during this pass. By default, general income tax law (Ley del Impuesto a la Renta) would presumptively apply to gains and income involving virtual assets, but no crypto-specific capital-gains, VAT/GST, withholding, or reporting-obligation guidance from SUNAT has been confirmed.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (1)

T2 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — In the absence of crypto-specific tax rules, general Peruvian income tax law (Ley del Impuesto a la Renta) would presumptively govern gains or income derived from virtual asset transactions, but no confirmed SUNAT ruling or crypto-specific provision has been located.retrieved 2026-08-05M3non-bindingour coverage gap, expected to resolve on a re-run

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No crypto-specific outbound-restriction, sanctions-nexus, or cross-border reporting-threshold regime was identified for virtual assets in Peru beyond the general AML sanctions-list screening embedded in the PSAV framework (OFAC, EU, and UN lists), which is disambiguated to the FIM aml_ctf module. Peru maintains no general capital-control regime restricting outbound crypto transfers.

Standing sub-brief443 words · last cycle 2026-08-21

Cross-Border Transfer

Peru's Travel Rule obligation for virtual asset transfers entered into force on 1 August 2026, closing the two-year grace period attached to Chapter VIII of SBS Resolution 02648-2024. Virtual Asset Service Providers domiciled or incorporated in Peru, and Peru branches of foreign VASPs, must now comply with information-transmission requirements modelled on FATF Recommendations 15 and 16 for virtual-asset transfers to and from counterparty VASPs. This is a high-confidence, primary-instrument-anchored finding: the obligation's entry into force followed directly and predictably from the underlying resolution's own two-year grace-period clock, rather than depending on any discretionary regulatory action taken this cycle.

This development completes, rather than initiates, Peru's VASP AML build-out. PSAVs have been required to register as reporting entities with UIF-Perú and implement an AML/CFT prevention programme, including a designated compliance officer, since the underlying framework was established in 2023-24. The Travel Rule was always the final scheduled element of that build-out; its entry into force this cycle should accordingly be read as the completion of a known, multi-year regulatory sequence rather than as a new or unexpected tightening.

The practical compliance question this obligation raises is not whether it applies, but how well-prepared the range of PSAVs operating in Peru are to meet it. Larger, more sophisticated VASPs with existing correspondent relationships to jurisdictions that have already implemented Travel Rule obligations are likely to have had a head start in building compliant transmission infrastructure. Smaller, domestically-focused PSAVs may face a steeper implementation curve, and the evidence base for this cycle does not include any UIF-Perú statement, enforcement action, or industry survey addressing the practical state of Travel Rule compliance across the sector as of the 1 August 2026 effective date.

This obligation should also be read against the backdrop of what it does not change. It does not create any licensing, prudential, or market-conduct regime for VASPs; Peru's crypto sector remains, on every other dimension besides AML transactional transparency, an unlicensed, unclassified space governed only by the registration-and-compliance-officer requirements that have applied since 2023-24. The framework crypto bill that would introduce a formal licensing regime (RUPIC) remains stalled in committee, meaning this cycle's Travel Rule development sits within, and does not alter, that broader structural gap.

Outlook

The primary item to watch is whether UIF-Perú or SBS publishes any implementation guidance, compliance statistics, or enforcement action specific to the newly-completed Travel Rule obligation; none has surfaced in the evidence base for this cycle. A second item is whether smaller domestic PSAVs report, or are reported to face, particular implementation difficulty relative to larger, internationally-connected VASPs, which would be the clearest signal of uneven practical compliance across the sector despite uniform legal applicability.

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Sources and findings (6)

T3 · NotabeneUIF-Perú — PSAVs must comply with Travel Rule as of 1 August 2026.retrieved 2026-08-20
T3 · NotabeneUIF-Perú — PSAVs must comply with Travel Rule as of 1 August 2026.retrieved 2026-08-20
T3 · NotabeneUIF-Perú — PSAVs must comply with Travel Rule as of 1 August 2026.retrieved 2026-08-20
T3 · NotabeneUIF-Perú — PSAVs must comply with Travel Rule as of 1 August 2026.retrieved 2026-08-20
T3 · NotabeneUIF-Perú — PSAVs must comply with Travel Rule as of 1 August 2026.retrieved 2026-08-20
T1 · Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS)Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) — Peru has no identified crypto-specific outbound-transfer restriction or cross-border reporting threshold for virtual assets; sanctions-list screening obligations for PSAV (OFAC, EU, UN lists) exist under the AML framework but are scored under the FIM aml_ctf module, not here.retrieved 2026-08-05M2non-bindingour coverage gap, expected to resolve on a re-run

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Crypto AML/CFT content is out of scope for this baseline because crypto subscribes to the FIM aml_ctf module; no aml_cft_regime claims are produced here. As disambiguation context only: Peru's UIF-Perú (an SBS specialized unit) incorporated Proveedores de Servicios de Activos Virtuales (PSAV) as obligated subjects (sujetos obligados) via Resolución S.B.S. N° 02648-2024, with conforming amendments to the Reglamento de Infracciones y Sanciones (Resolución SBS N° 8930-2012) reported in SBS Boletín UIF N° 137 (2024). Substantive AML/CFT claim content (KYC/CDD, travel rule, SAR/STR reporting, sanctions screening, record-keeping, risk assessment) is owned by the FIM module and not duplicated here.

Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (1)

T2 · SBS / UIF-PerúSBS / UIF-Perú — AML/CFT obligations for Peruvian PSAV (KYC/CDD, SAR/STR reporting, record-keeping, sanctions screening) are substantively owned and scored by the FIM aml_ctf module; this crypto DR baseline records only disambiguation context, not scored claims.retrieved 2026-08-05M1non-bindinga fact about the regime

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