Europe’s central banking system has asked Brussels to tighten the bloc’s crypto rules, one day after the Eurosystem switched on Pontes, its settlement rail for tokenised securities. The European System of Central Banks, which includes the European Central Bank and the national central banks of EU member states, published its response to the European Commission’s review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, known as MiCA, on Tuesday 22 September. The 57-page response

UK crypto-as-a-service platform Zumo has partnered with regulatory and financial services firm Zeyro to give cryptoasset businesses a compliant route through the FCA's financial promotions regime, weeks before the regulator's cryptoasset authorisation gateway opens on 30 September.

Nasdaq is putting $100 million into Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, valuing the business at $21 billion and extending a partnership aimed at bringing regulated tokenised equities to market in the second quarter of 2027.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on 18 August, opening a 60 day public comment period on a new framework that would let companies raise money through crypto asset offerings without full Securities Act registration. The move lands only days after the regulat

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Crypto and Digital Assets opened a cross party inquiry on 21 July into UK banks refusing accounts and restricting payments to cryptocurrency and digital asset businesses, giving the sector a six week window to put hard evidence behind a complaint it has made inf

For years, anyone building in tokenisation in the UK has had to plan around a moving target. The rules were coming, everyone agreed, but their shape was a matter of consultation papers and educated guesses. That ended on 30 June, when the Financial Conduct Authority published the final rules and gui

From 1 July, the largest crypto exchange in the world stops serving customers across the European Union. Binance has emailed users in Poland, Italy, Spain, France and elsewhere to say it can no longer accept new registrations and will restrict services for EU residents, after failing to secure a lic

Standard Chartered's new call is not simply that tokenisation grows. It is that tokenised assets become the fuel decentralised finance runs on.

A research note published this week by Binance Research puts a number on something the tokenisation sector has been circling for two years. It argues that crypto exchanges could route around US$2 trillion of new capital and close to 300 million new investors into global equity markets by 2031, with

When standards bodies form in emerging financial markets, the names on the founding membership list matter enormously. They shape the requirements, the definitions and ultimately the infrastructure that gets built. The Tokenized Cash Management Advisory Group, known as TCMAG, is the closest thing th

Twelve of the largest European banks have chosen Fireblocks to build a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin through the Qivalis consortium, with a launch targeted for the second half of 2026.