Tagged: regulation

October 5, 2026 @ 2:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 1, 2026, advanced a package of proposed amendments and new provisions under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 aimed at creating a workable path for registered investment advisers and… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 1:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European cryptocurrency users are showing greater confidence in platforms that operate under official authorization, according to remarks from a senior executive at the Austrian exchange Bitpanda. Christian Trummer, the firm’s co-chief executive, made the observation while recently sharing key insights with news media outlets. He… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has publicly challenged positions taken by European authorities as the European Commission reviews the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). In comments published on October 2, 2026, he said he was disappointed by the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority’s… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s financial regulator has taken the next formal step toward putting tokenized securities into the existing capital markets system, publishing draft subordinate rules that would let the framework start operating in early 2027. On October 1, 2026, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) proposed amendments to… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York and Wyoming regulators have agreed to coordinate supervision of virtual currency and digital asset businesses, including a pathway that aims to produce licensing decisions within six months for certain established firms. On October 1, 2026, the New York State Department of Financial Services… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) is studying whether a formal market-maker regime should be written into the country’s next digital asset law after a yen-linked token listed on Upbit briefly traded at several times the value it is meant to hold. The catalyst was… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian lawmakers have formally invited the leaders of two major artificial intelligence companies to appear before a Senate inquiry, following revelations that an autonomous OpenAI system gained unauthorised access to government websites. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs the inquiry examining artificial intelligence and data… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a package of ethics and consumer protection measures that includes a first-of-its-kind state ban on public officials issuing memecoins. The announcement from his office on September 27, 2026, was framed in blunt political terms as “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,”… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 12:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US securities staff have offered a more precise reading of how existing law applies to two common crypto practices: token repurchase programs and tokens issued in liquid staking. In staff-level FAQs released September 25, 2026, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance said that, in defined… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polymarket is intensifying talks with policymakers in London, Brussels and other European capitals in an effort to have its event contracts treated as financial instruments rather than wagers. The New York-based prediction market, now raising capital at a valuation above $20 billion, argues that a… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US derivatives regulators have drawn a sharper line around a fast-growing corner of prediction markets: contracts that pay out based on what a named person says, where that person appears, or whom that person meets. On September 22, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s new virtual-asset licensing regime is already beginning to thin the field. With just over a month left in the transition window, local reporting indicates that only five virtual asset service providers have submitted authorization filings to the Banco Central do Brasil. Of those five,… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Albuquerque has moved to shut down physical cryptocurrency kiosks after the City Council approved a citywide prohibition on virtual currency ATMs and cashier-assisted crypto transactions. The ordinance, passed on September 10, 2026, requires operators and host businesses to take existing machines offline and remove them… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s federal banking watchdog has given financial institutions clearer room to experiment with deposits recorded on digital ledgers. On September 10, 2026, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions published a short statement confirming that a deposit does not become a new legal product… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s lower house of parliament has again fallen short in its bid to overturn a presidential veto on national cryptocurrency legislation, leaving the country without a completed framework to implement European Union digital asset rules. On Friday, lawmakers in the Sejm voted 241 to 198,… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium’s National Bank has publicly identified Wise Europe SA, part of Wise Group PLC (NASDAQ: WSE), as the first firm named under a strengthened policy for disclosing anti-money laundering enforcement actions. The publications, dated 25 August 2026, mark the start of a more transparent approach… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s central bank has taken a further step toward turning its long-planned stablecoin regime into law. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on proposed changes to the Payment Services Act 2019. The package would give legal force to… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam is reportedly building a supervised market for tokenized real-world assets, treating blockchain not as a speculative venue but as a new channel for raising capital against tangible economic activity. The core legal instrument is Government Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP, signed on 9 September 2025. It launched… Read More