Compliance frameworks — AML, KYC, market structure, licensing regimes, and custody rules.
Seven banks moved regulated pound deposits across a shared platform, setting up a direct test of tokenized money for digital-asset settlement.
If regulated euro stablecoins gain traction in trade finance, businesses could move collateral across borders in minutes instead of waiting days.
The access change covers six previously restricted markets, but sanctioned regions remain subject to separate compliance checks as the exchange winds down.
The shift moves EU oversight beyond MiCA rulemaking toward testing how regulated firms deploy AI and tokenized products in customer-facing finance.
The deal could add regulated brokerage and secondary-trading infrastructure to MoonPay, but customer access, eligibility and timing remain unannounced.
The move raises questions about Coinbase’s institutional standing in the UK as crypto firms seek a stronger role in the country’s financial system.
The leaked spreadsheet exposed IPO candidates across China, South Korea and India along with private-equity and pension-fund backers, a rare look inside a tier-one bank's deal pipeline.
The reported ESCB position would swap a mandated bank-deposit quota for liquidity timetables, cutting the two-way channel that let the 2023 SVB turmoil wipe 26% off USDC's market cap.
Brian Armstrong revisited the balance-display bug that nearly overwhelmed the exchange's first support team, a reminder of how thin the margin for error was in crypto's startup era.
New guidance restricts when exchanges can list contracts tied to what public figures say, marking a fresh line in the sand for the fast-growing prediction-market sector.
The advisory stops short of banning markets tied to a named person's words or actions, but sets a high bar that could narrow which event contracts clear supervisory review.
The fund applies business-based underwriting to a market where banks face regulatory constraints and crypto lenders typically require asset-backed collateral.
The warning puts prediction-market operators on notice as regulators test whether event contracts can be protected from insider trading and outcome manipulation.
The approvals point to a repeatable federal route, but final approval, distribution, liquidity and execution will determine whether the charters create durable advantage.
The pause removes Animoca’s direct Nasdaq route, while Currenc regains freedom to raise capital and both sides retain an option to restart talks.
As autonomous agents browse at machine speed and volume, bot detection shifts from a background security function to core web infrastructure.
The standoff centres on MiCA's mandate that major issuers park 60% of reserves in commercial bank deposits, a rule EU central banks themselves now want scrapped over withdrawal-risk concerns.
Broker-dealers custodying non-security tokens without special registration is the institutional unlock. Once OMB signs off, the on-ramp through regulated US intermediaries stops being theoretical.
The derivatives giant is extending its regulated crypto complex to two assets institutions have never had CME-grade hedging tools for, with both standard and micro contract sizes on day one.
Volume is the first metric traders read to judge liquidity, and one automated-looking trade size drove over half of it on both markets, raising hard questions about what the activity actually…
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