The EU securities regulator has told the European Commission how it wants the bloc crypto rulebook rewritten, from influencer marketing to DeFi access. It also names a framework for tokenised securities and on-chain settlement as a longer-term aim.

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

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

When the company that safekeeps more than 22 trillion euros of the world's securities decides tokenisation is the future, the interesting part is not the press release. It is the architecture underneath it.

On the same day that two giants of market infrastructure moved deeper into digital assets, a Spanish wholesale custodian quietly switched on crypto custody for other banks. On its own it is a modest announcement. As part of a pattern, it is the story.

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.

Digital Plumbing evolving The debate about whether tokenisation works has largely been settled. The harder question, the one that will define the next two years, is whether the financial system's underlying infrastructure can support a transition from carefully managed pilots to genuine production scale. From Proof of Concept to Production Problem 2025 was, by most measures, the year institutional tokenisation stopped being theoretical. The EU's MiCA framework became operati

the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued joint guidance that the digital assets industry has been waiting over a decade for. For the first time, the SEC formally defined different types of crypto assets and how the regulator will approach them, ending years of enforcement-by-litigation and replacing it with a clear taxonomy.