OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Why the CLARITY Act’s SEC-CFTC split reshapes US…
The Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act would split US oversight of digital assets between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and a House Financial Services Committee hearing…
FCA finalises UK crypto rules and refuses to…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the final rules for the United Kingdom's cryptoasset regime on June 30, 2026, cutting stablecoin capital from 2% to 1%, building a bespoke market-abuse regime, and explicitly refusing to…
SEC puts Regulation Crypto on July agenda with…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put "Regulation Crypto" on its 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking targeted for July — three distinct crypto rulemakings in all — and the…
Why the FATF Travel Rule still splits VASP…
Seven years after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) extended its Travel Rule to crypto, compliance in 2026 still splits sharply by jurisdiction: 85 of 117 surveyed jurisdictions have passed implementing law, but most have…
BoE’s £40bn stablecoin cap deepens the EU–US reserve…
The Bank of England's June 2026 final stablecoin framework — a £40 billion issuance cap per systemic sterling coin and a 70/30 gilt-to-central-bank-deposit reserve split — widens the gulf between the UK, the EU's Markets…
Why MiCA’s market-abuse regime outpaces the UK and…
MiCA's Title VI market-abuse regime imports a MiFID-style ban on insider dealing and manipulation into EU crypto from December 30, 2024, and as the transitional window closes around July 1, 2026 it forces every crypto-asset…
Basel’s 1,250% crypto capital rule reopens as the…
The Basel Committee's SCO60 standard set a single global capital treatment for banks' crypto exposures from January 1, 2026 — but with the United States rejecting it outright, the United Kingdom stepping back, and the…
MiCA 2: the EU reopens its crypto rulebook…
The European Commission's MiCA review consultation is widely read as a tidy-up of the world's first comprehensive crypto rulebook — it is closer to an admission that MiCA's perimeter was drawn in the wrong place.…