MiCA
Every story this desk has filed under MiCA, most recent first.
Europe's Markets Regulator Gives Platforms Three Months to Clear Out Non-Compliant Stablecoins
ESMA told authorised crypto firms in the EU to stop offering stablecoins that do not meet MiCA requirements, blocking new access immediately and leaving national regulators three months to deal with what customers already hold.
Europe's Markets Regulator Puts Tokenisation on Its Supervisory List for 2027
ESMA will make tokenisation and artificial intelligence a union-wide supervisory priority from 2027, with national regulators mapping how firms use both in client-facing products before examining a subset of them.
Europe's Markets Regulator Names Tokenized Equities Among the Channels Back Into Banking
ESMA has flagged tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets as places where deepening crypto links could carry risk into the traditional financial system, while questioning how Polymarket and Kalshi reach EU users at all.
Revolut Puts a Euro Stablecoin in Front of Retail, and Someone Else Issues It
Revolut has begun a phased rollout of EURR to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal. The token is issued by Bridge, with reserves held at a Luxembourg subsidiary of Stripe, and its outstanding supply starts near zero against Circle's EURC.