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Paris will levy 17% on dormant bank savings held by Caisse des dépôts to raise €1.4 billion, while millions of lost bitcoins remain entirely beyond the reach of French tax authorities.
A cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp message from Intesa Sanpaolo's CEO led Fideuram's treasury to wire nearly €95 million to China and Hong Kong in February. Over €53 million has been clawed back, but €39.5 million converted into cryptocurrency remains unrecovered.
Speaking in London, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel laid out three possible architectures for putting Eurosystem reserves on distributed ledger technology, all preserving the two-tier banking system the euro area relies on.
Stani Kulechov has publicly criticised the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority after their contributions to the MiCA consultation proposed extending the stablecoin yield ban to lending, borrowing and staking, and restricting regulated firms' access to DeFi.
The ECB president is calling for oversight of autonomous AI agents in finance, even as these systems already clear payments among themselves in USDC through protocols such as x402 and AP2, outside the central bank's reach.
Industry groups poured $8 million into pushing the Clarity Act through Congress, but the bill fell one vote short in the Senate on September 15. Regulators are now delivering parts of the industry's agenda through rulemaking instead.
Three months after France's transitional PSAN regime lapsed, the country's crypto landscape has been reshaped by MiCA, with 35 licensed providers, Binance France's departure and new European supervisory scrutiny on the horizon.
HSBC has obtained an issuer licence from Hong Kong's monetary authority and named its planned Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin RedCoin, positioning the bank alongside rivals Standard Chartered and Bank of China (Hong Kong) in a race to issue regulated digital tokens.
tZERO Securities is giving eligible US companies access to Goldman Sachs' $105 billion FTIXX money market fund through Lynq, an Avalanche-based settlement network, without tokenizing the fund's shares.
A US Senate subcommittee investigation into more than 800 sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Tehran found the overwhelming majority operated almost exclusively in USDT, prompting Tether to disclose its own freezing figures and cooperation with law enforcement.
Chainalysis's 'Geography of Cryptocurrency' report shows that while crypto market capitalization lost $2.1 trillion between July 2025 and June 2026, actual on-chain economic activity fell only 1.6%, propped up by a surge in peer-to-peer and cross-border stablecoin transfers.
MOEX will launch ruble-settled perpetual futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Tron indices from September 22, restricted to qualified investors, as Russia continues to build synthetic crypto exposure into its regulated financial system.
The European Central Bank has begun preparatory work to place part of its own funds portfolio into tokenised securities, with settlement to take place in central bank money on its newly launched Pontes platform.
Listed companies added just 5,900 BTC to their treasuries over three months, down from more than 159,000 BTC during the 2025 boom, as falling share premiums and an MSCI exclusion consultation curb the trade that once rivalled ETF demand.
The National Crime Agency has placed crypto assets third on a new nine-point list of economic crime priorities, citing hundreds of billions of pounds in criminal money moving through UK finance and detailing two operations that yielded arrests, seizures and millions in frozen funds.
A new statutory objective will require the Bank of England to promote innovation in payments and digital money, arriving weeks after the central bank eased its draft stablecoin regime.