Regulatory Updates

The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), the Belgian regulator, is calling for feedback on a communication classifying crypto assets as...

As we reported in our previous post, the EU was approaching agreement on regulation of crypto trading within the union. And this week the European...

Uzbekistan’s National Agency of Prospective Projects (NAPP) is to regulate crypto mining operators. Under the new regulations, only companies using...

The Central Bank of Israel has released the results of a lab experiment that examined user privacy and the use of smart contracts in payments in...

EU member states are reportedly close to agreement on the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) legislative package which would introduce comprehensive...

According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance, the national government has approved amendments to the country’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and...

Japan has become one of the first countries to regulate stablecoins in the wake of the implosion of TerraUSD. The Japanese parliament passed a bill...

The United States Federal Reserve has published a paper examining the possible effects of a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) on U.S....

Binance has been registered as a cryptocurrency service provider by the Italian financial regulator, the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM),...

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (the ECB), described cryptocurrencies that are not backed by underlying assets as “worth...

The United Kingdom’s Treasury Department plans to accept stablecoins as legal tender and bring them within the scope of UK regulation. In legalising...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted a fraudulent crypto mining and trading scheme conducted by MCC International (Mining...