Briefs: Hockey launches financial crime taskforce, Digital CC tests P2P remittance service 06 May 2015 4:00PM Banking Day staff Briefs, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the formation of a taskforce to fight financial crime. The Government is providing A$127.6 million of funding to set up The Serious Financial Crime Taskforce, which will coordinate investigations into superannuation and investment fraud, identity crime and tax evasion. Digital payments company Digital CC plans to enter the remittance market with a service based on the same distributed ledger technology used for Bitcoin. Digital CC said it was beta testing an application called AirPocket, which it claims will turn remittance into a peer-to-peer market. Transactions would be handled by "AirAgents".