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Crypto Regulation

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Crypto regulation is the body of laws and supervisory rules governing the issuance, trading, custody and use of crypto-assets, including authorisation of service providers, disclosure requirements, market conduct rules, client-asset custody standards, and anti-money-laundering obligations.

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  • Crypto regulation addresses crypto-asset issuers, exchanges, custodians and service providers. It covers authorisation, disclosure, market conduct, custody of client assets and anti-money laundering obligations.
  • Approaches vary across jurisdictions, with some adopting dedicated frameworks such as the European Union’s MiCA and others applying existing financial law. International standards from bodies such as the Financial Action Task Force inform national rules.

Current Landscape (2026)

  • The US enacted its first federal digital-asset statute, the GENIUS Act (Public Law 119-27), signed on 18 July 2025; it restricts payment-stablecoin issuance to “permitted issuers”, mandates 1:1 backing by cash or US Treasuries, and takes effect the earlier of 120 days after final rules or 18 January 2027, with rulemakings owed by the Fed, OCC, FDIC, NCUA, Treasury and FinCEN.
  • The CLARITY Act (market-structure bill splitting SEC/CFTC jurisdiction) passed the US House 294-134 on 17 July 2025 but stalled in the Senate through 2026, after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong withdrew support on 14 January 2026 over the Senate Banking Committee draft, which prohibits paying yield on stablecoin balances; passage odds sat near a coin-flip by mid-2026.
  • To fill the gap, a joint SEC-CFTC interpretive release (33-11412) on 17 March 2026 set out a five-category digital-asset taxonomy naming specific tokens as “digital commodities”, giving compliance teams a working classification framework ahead of legislation.
  • The EU’s MiCA became fully applicable on 30 December 2024 (stablecoin ART/EMT rules from 30 June 2024), and the final national grandfathering windows closed on 1 July 2026; ESMA’s register listed roughly 309 authorised CASPs and about 19 e-money-token issuers by late July 2026, but still no authorised asset-referenced-token issuer.
  • The UK moved from an AML-only perimeter to a full regime: Parliament made the FSMA 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 on 4 February 2026, and the FCA published final rules on 30 June 2026 (policy statements PS26/9-PS26/13 covering admissions, stablecoin issuance, regulated activities and prudential standards), with the authorisation gateway opening 30 September 2026 and go-live on 25 October 2027.
  • UK systemic stablecoins face dual oversight: once HM Treasury recognises an issuer as systemic, the Bank of England assumes prudential regulation jointly with the FCA, per the two authorities’ June 2026 joint publication; qualifying-stablecoin issuers must hold single-currency backing on statutory trust and redeem at par within T+1.
  • Open challenges as of 2026 include the persistent “yield loophole” (issuer yield bans that exchanges route around), unresolved DeFi-developer and market-structure treatment pending CLARITY, cross-border interoperability efforts such as the July 2026 US-UK Transatlantic Taskforce roadmap aligning reserve standards, and the striking absence of any MiCA-authorised ART issuer despite the framework being live.

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