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Alfa-Bank's pilot lands in a market that has shifted from blanket prohibition to state-issued rules under the digital-ruble framework, positioning private incumbents to handle the volume exchanges…
The largest private bank in Russia joining Sberbank and Tinkoff in the custody queue signals that Moscow is positioning state-linked and major private lenders as the regulated gateway for client…
The country's largest private bank plans to become a regulated digital-asset custodian once Russia's new crypto law takes effect, with Sberbank and T-Bank signaling they will follow.
The chokepoint isn't the ban, it's the single state-owned bank that now decides which flows stay in the regulated perimeter and which get pushed offshore to evade rising costs.
Russia’s largest bank entering crypto custody under state framework is the structural legitimizing signal the domestic market has been waiting for, with an intermediary role on foreign venues still…
The country's largest bank moves from digital-asset law to ship a wallet inside its retail apps, with the launch tied to a Sept. 1 law going live.
Sberbank's plan to ship a wallet and digital depository in its main apps by year-end turns the September digital-rights bill from a regulatory footnote into Russia's first mass-market,…
The announcement marks the transition from a limited pilot with a handful of banks to a broader consumer rollout, though legal work and bank integration still need to clear before mass adoption.
Von der Leyen confirmed a 21st sanctions package granting the EU authority to blacklist entire third countries from crypto-asset services — Moscow retaliated the same day with fees on dollar…
The European Union is moving to broaden its sanctions regime to cover crypto platforms with ties to Russia, a…
The Central Bank's whitelist for unqualified investors is the harshest retail channelisation yet — and it reframes the Russian market as a closed, rouble-gated pool ringfenced from global liquidity.
The Bank of Russia will let ordinary investors buy only $BTC, $ETH and $USDT through licensed brokers — with an annual limit near $4,100 — shutting altcoins out of the domestic retail funnel.
Moscow's move to bar a 17-year-old researcher — and three other UK nationals plus a Washington Post reporter — elevates a ruble-pegged stablecoin built to dodge post-2022 sanctions from a niche token…
First time Britain has wielded Regulation 17A against an exchange — A7 and HTX named as primary targets, with ruble-backed A7A5 stablecoin flagged as the new sanctions-evasion rail.
Beyond freezing UK-linked funds, the designation forces Binance, OKX, Bybit and Bitget into live transaction monitoring of any HTX-routed flows — and Garantex plus the A7 network's $90B-plus transfer…
The first use of Regulation 17A against crypto venues — not the $90B A7 figure — is the structural beat: every UK-regulated exchange now has a precedent for tracing multi-hop blockchain transactions.
The move extends the UK sanctions toolkit from TradFi into on-chain venues — Bitpapa, EXMO, Aifory, Rapira, and Garantex's EU arm all hit, with Elliptic calling it a structural first.
It's the first time the UK has used its crypto-specific Regulation 17A against an exchange, a structural signal that goes well beyond one venue in a small token's market cap.
A7, a ruble-pegged token pitched at sanctioned Russian trade, is now positioning for life after the sanctions regime itself — a hedge that says as much about the project's durability as about the…
The package targets the rails Russia has leaned on hardest to move value around Western restrictions — naming crypto exchanges, stablecoins, and the digital ruble — and lands as the bloc works to…
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