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Every week, we track what moved across SEC, ESMA, MAS, FINMA, and 20+ regulatory bodies — and tell you what it means for your desk. Built from primary sources. Written for professionals.
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Essential Analysis
- •MiCA's Passport Problem: Europe's Crypto Single Market Is Fracturing Before It Begins
Why MiCA's single-market promise is fragmenting across 27 implementation regimes.
- •UK Property (Digital Assets) Act 2025 Guide
The legal framework that finally gives digital assets property rights under English law.
- •Stablecoins vs CBDCs vs Tokenized Deposits
The structural comparison your treasury team needs before choosing rails.
- •Off-Bank FX Settlement Regulatory Guide
How settlement is moving outside traditional banking — and what regulators are doing about it.
- •EU MiCA Enforcement Heatmap
Which member states are enforcing, which are delaying, and what that means for your licensing strategy.
This Week's Intelligence
- •Stripe Just Got a Federal Banking Charter for Stablecoins— Feb 20, 2026
Bridge receives conditional OCC national trust charter. NYSE parent ICE announces 24/7 tokenized trading. BNY launches tokenized deposits.
- •FATF Says AI Is Already Forging Your KYC Documents— Feb 20, 2026
Deepfake IDs, predictive threshold probing, agentic mule networks. Four jurisdictions published AI governance frameworks in one week.
- •South Korea Just Ended Its 9-Year Corporate Crypto Ban— Feb 19, 2026
3,500 entities cleared under FSC protocols with 5% equity cap. Poland vetoes MiCA measures. SEC pivots from enforcement to rulemaking.
- •A Chinese Insurer Just Bet $500M on Tokenization— Feb 8, 2026
CPIC and Hivemind Capital target private credit. Tether deployed $250M across Gold.com and Anchorage. Flutterwave added stablecoin rails for Africa.
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