Crypto assets

On 9 October 2024, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued its final report on investor education surrounding crypto-assets.

The report follows up on an earlier report published in 2020 and provides updated information on crypto-assets that will be useful to regulators when designing investor education initiatives for retail investors. The report

On 25 September 2024, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2494 of 24 September 2024 laying down implementing technical standards for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to standard forms, templates and procedures for

On 24 September 2024, the European Commission published the following Implementing Regulations supplementing the Regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCAR):

  • Implementing Regulation laying down implementing technical standards (ITS) for the application of MiCAR with regard to standard forms, templates and procedures for the cooperation and exchange of information between competent authorities

On 19 June 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the following regulatory products under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR):

  • Final report: Guidelines establishing the common reference parameters of the stress test scenarios for the liquidity stress tests referred in Article 45(4) MiCAR.

On 13 June 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a package of technical standards and guidelines under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR).

The package comprises:

  • Final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying adjustment of own funds requirement and minimum features of stress testing programmes of issuers

On 6 June 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the following governance regulatory products under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR):

  • Final report on guidelines on the minimum content of the governance arrangements for issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) (EBA/GL/2024/06). The guidelines specify in accordance with Article 34(13)

On 31 May 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a final report on draft technical standards on certain requirements in relation to conflicts of interests of crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR).

The aim of the draft technical standards is

On 30 May 2024, four Commission Delegated Regulations supplementing the Regulation on markets in cryptoassets (MiCAR) were published in the Official Journal of the EU.

The Delegated Regulations supplement MiCAR in relation to the following topics:

On 7 May 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a press release stating that the European Supervisory Authority had published three sets of final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and one set of final draft implementing technical standards (ITS) relating to the authorisation as issuer of asset-referenced tokens