On 14 October 2026 the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced that it has classified USDC, issued in the EU by Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS, as a significant e-money token under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The EBA says 45 e-money tokens (EMTs) have been notified under MiCAR, and USDC is the first to…
On 12 October 2026 the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a five-page note to the G20, Global stablecoin arrangements: Cross-border vulnerabilities and financial stability monitoring, together with a letter from its Chair, Andrew Bailey, to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their 15 October meeting. The FSB global stablecoin note sets out…
On 8 October 2026 ESMA published an opinion, reference ESMA75-113276571-1742, telling national competent authorities (NCAs) that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) should not provide crypto-asset services in relation to non-MiCA-compliant ARTs and EMTs: asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens for which the conditions of Title III or Title IV of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) are not met….
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA). The AMLA MiCA review paper is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed, and reads MiCA…
ESMA’s response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA), reference ESMA75-113276571-1721, is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed. The ESMA MiCA review response is written as a thematic policy paper, and its asks reach the processes a crypto-asset service provider (CASP)…
On 1 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) announced that it had finalised three sets of regulatory technical standards for the private sector and submitted them to the European Commission. The AMLA final RTS cover customer due diligence under Article 28(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR),…
On 24 September 2026 the European Banking Authority published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the MiCA review, an exercise feeding into the review framework under Article 140 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. The EBA asks the Commission to prioritise five things: a dedicated regime for third-country multi-issuer stablecoin schemes, a fresh look…
On 4 August 2026, Luxembourg published the Law of 22 July 2026 in Mémorial A No 412. It is a short instrument, two substantive articles, and it adds a power the Luxembourg AML law had not carried before: it lets the Cellule de renseignement financier (CRF), the country’s financial intelligence unit, push fraud-risk account numbers…
On 13 July 2026 the Council of the European Union added new names to two of its Russia restrictive-measures regimes. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1708 amended the human-rights measures set out in Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1710 amended the destabilising-activities measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/2642. Both were published in the Official…