27 Aug 24 @ 11:21

Hot on the heels of DECTA’s recent announcement, Banking Circle has announced the launch of EURI, a bank-backed stablecoin, compliant with the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA). The launch... read more

05 Jul 24 @ 13:09

At Money20/20 2024, industry leaders Vedran Jankovic from Deutsche Bank and Lukas Enzersdorfer from Bitpanda highlighted the transformative impact of MiCA regulations, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology on the fintech sector.... read more

21 Apr 23 @ 12:51

The European Parliament has signed off on the MiCA regulation, an ambitious and forward thinking law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry... read more

19 Apr 23 @ 17:15

In October 2022, the European Union finalised the text of its regulatory framework called Markets in Crypto-Assets or MiCA. The final vote on the new regulation is scheduled for April 19, 2023, meaning the... read more

03 Nov 22 @ 18:05

The European Union is set to be the first major jurisdiction in the world to agree how to regulate the digital asset sector, via its Markets in Crypto Assets regulation... read more

13 Oct 22 @ 11:04

The European Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee has approved MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation text, and sent it to the chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary... read more

01 Sep 22 @ 10:41

It seems that the direction of travel for the regulation of cryotocurrency and crypto assets in the EU and UK are taking strongly divergent paths. In Europe there is the... read more

18 Mar 22 @ 10:48

The regulation of crypto assets and related services is still not treated uniformly in the European Union and resembles more a patchwork of regulatory fragmentation. Although the fifth Anti-Money Laundering... read more

07 Dec 23 @ 10:57

France’s 3rd biggest bank by assets and Western Europe’s 7th biggest has stolen a march on competitors by launching EUR CoinVertible its own stablecoin. Société Générale will become the first... read more

09 May 23 @ 12:14

We may be in the middle of a crypto winter, and digital assets might have lost two-thirds of their value. But that’s not stopping regulators preparing for a future crypto... read more

01 Dec 22 @ 13:00

The value of bitcoin peaked at $69,000 in November 2021 before falling to $17,000 by mid-June 2022. Since then, the value has fluctuated around $20,000. For bitcoin proponents, the seeming... read more

20 Apr 22 @ 17:10

In what will almost certainly turn out to be an ill informed attempt to influence policy, more than 40 crypto business leaders have written to the European Union asking not... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Visa has unveiled a new capability within its Visa Acceptance Platform designed to help payment acquirers modernise their transaction processing infrastructure through a single application programming interface (API). The new... read more

16 Feb 26 @ 14:31

Stablecoins have moved decisively into the financial mainstream. With more than $300 billion in circulation and annual settlement volumes estimated to exceed $20 trillion, tokenised dollars now function as a... read more

16 Feb 26 @ 14:12

Global fintech investment staged a notable recovery in 2025, marking a decisive break from three consecutive years of contraction. Total funding rose to $116 billion across 4,719 deals, up from... read more

04 Feb 26 @ 17:17

For decades, the POS terminal was a steadfast but unremarkable fixture of retail life — the small, grey box whose sole purpose was to approve or decline a card transaction.... read more

03 Feb 26 @ 18:04

Digital asset payments are edging closer to everyday commerce as Lydian launches a new application enabling cryptocurrency acceptance across Clover devices for crypto POS payments. The move allows merchants using... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:37

OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and... read more

29 Jan 26 @ 19:33

Checkout.com has taken a decisive step deeper into Europe’s regulated digital money ecosystem with the acquisition of Blue EMI, a licensed electronic money institution authorised to issue euro-denominated stablecoins. The... read more

20 Jan 26 @ 17:57

For much of blockchain’s commercial history, regulation hovered in the background as an unresolved constraint. Financial institutions ran proofs of concept, explored distributed ledgers and monitored policy debates, but few... read more