Regulation

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a detailed assessment of cross‑border vulnerabilities in global stablecoin arrangements, warning that their structure, international reach and...

The International Monetary Fund has warned that tokenisation’s rapid growth risks hitting a ceiling unless regulators and market‑infrastructure providers accelerate work on the legal...

The Financial Conduct Authority has said innovation is now a structural pillar of the UK’s capital‑markets reform agenda, with tokenisation, digital infrastructure and new...

The Bank of England has pledged five measures to support digital asset innovation as it seeks to move tokenisation from pilot projects to mainstream...

The FCA has opened its authorisation gateway for the UK's new cryptoasset regime. Firms can now apply for authorisation, or to vary their existing permissions,...

The UK has set out a coordinated national plan to accelerate the development of tokenised wholesale financial markets, publishing a detailed roadmap that positions...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced a new temporary framework designed to facilitate the trading of tokenised equities through blockchain-based platforms. Announced on...

The Financial Conduct Authority has carried out further enforcement action against suspected illegal crypto trading operations in London. Working alongside HM Revenue & Customs and...

ClearToken has formally applied to the Bank of England for authorisation to launch its central counterparty clearing service, CT Clear, in a move that...

UK regulators have unexpectedly placed tokenised gold on the policy agenda and signalled a decisive shift from pilots to permanent tokenised market infrastructure, marking...

European market infrastructure players including Nasdaq and Börse Stuttgart Group are calling on EU lawmakers to rethink proposed limits on the scale of distributed...

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Lucy Rigby KC, has declared the digitalisation of wholesale financial markets a “national endeavour”, telling UK Finance that...

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has unveiled a policy roadmap for the digital transformation of securities markets, setting out plans to introduce tokenised stocks,...

Frontier artificial intelligence models are creating a new class of cross‑border financial‑stability risks that capital‑markets innovators must now factor into product design, infrastructure choices...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a consultation on proposed amendments to the Payment Services Act 2019 that would establish how stablecoin...

Regulatory arbitrage – adopting regulatory licences based on the easiest path – was a well trodden strategy, historically, for many in digital assets.But, as...