EU Regulators Seek More Power to Oversee Crypto
The call puts the reach of EU oversight in focus for crypto firms operating across the bloc.
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The call puts the reach of EU oversight in focus for crypto firms operating across the bloc.
The penalty puts privacy compliance back in focus as a direct regulatory and financial risk for Big Tech operating across the European Union.
A baseline trade-termination threat tied to a hypothetical political move injects fresh uncertainty into a US-EU relationship already strained by tariff salvos, with markets now pricing the…
The talks connect EU policy to the wider debate over standards for developing and deploying AI across borders.
The proposal would set a bloc-wide age threshold for social platforms and AI chatbots, adding children's online safety to the EU's widening tech-regulation agenda.
Open-source projects and pre-2027 hardware lines are not exempted, and ENISA's central portal routes every filing to multiple national CSIRTs at once, turning wallet security into a permanent…
Europe's largest household-savings mobilization in decades is being routed to domestic companies, with Bitcoin structurally excluded.
The cutoff lands as a MiCA deadline approaches, with around three in four crypto companies registered across Europe expected to lose their licenses this summer.
Five of the six are euro-denominated, but dollar stablecoins still hold the capitalization lead, with USDC the dominant name on the list.
The measure bars EU persons and entities from dealing with HTX, alongside a broader new mechanism that lets the bloc target any crypto venue based in jurisdictions that repeatedly enable Russian…
The exchange joins a sanctions list now read by every EU-hosted venue: the precedent is the cost of serving Russian users, not the token-level fallout.
The new rule is a countdown, not a clarification: platforms that handle EU and UK customers must block trading and withdrawals for any user who refuses to hand over a tax ID.
Tether's refusal to chase a MiCA licence while Ripple clears the bar underscores the two-tier market forming under Europe's new rules, and which issuers will actually serve EU users in 2026.
The MiCA deadline flushes Binance out of the EU on July 1, and the money is going to wallets, not to licensed competitors, a humbling read for Europe's new compliant venues.
The Telegram founder's rebuke lands as Brussels weighs measures to extend lawful intercept powers across messaging apps, framing the fight as one over free speech rather than compliance.
The vote green-lights client-side scanning of encrypted chats on platforms from Signal to WhatsApp, with critics warning it breaks end-to-end privacy for 450M Europeans.
Less than two weeks after MiCA's grace period ended, Brussels is asking whether the framework needs a 2027 revision to absorb tokenized securities and foreign stablecoin issuers that didn't exist…
The first EU-wide custody review since MiCA went live gives supervisors a live look at how asset-references and segregation rules are holding up in practice, before any templates harden into binding…
Crypto-asset service providers are moving fast under Europe's new licensing regime; asset-referenced token issuers have not yet shown up, leaving the stablecoin side of the framework quiet.
The license lets Ripple passport XRP and its stablecoin services into all 27 EU member states under a single regulator-recognized framework, a structurally different footprint from the…