On 29 April 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Final Report containing supervisory guidelines on practices for Member State competent authorities (NCAs) to prevent and detect market abuse under the Regulation in markets in crypto assets (MiCA).
Objective
The guidelines apply to NCAs and are
On 26 March 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the official translations of the guidelines on templates to assist Member State competent authorities (NCAs) in performing their supervisory duties regarding issuers’ compliance under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The guidelines apply from 26 May 2025. NCAs must
On 24 March 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced that it had updated its methodology for the assessment of regulatory and supervisory frameworks of non-EU countries. The updates have been made to reflect changes to the Capital Requirements Regulation and Capital Requirements Directive. The EBA’s methodology is based on two questionnaires with
On 19 March 2025, there was published on the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) website the official translations of the guidelines on the conditions and criteria for the qualification of crypto-assets as financial instruments. The guidelines specify the conditions and criteria for determining whether a crypto-asset should qualify as a financial instrument
On 18 March 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, met with a group of fintech CEOs and confirmed the next steps to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the UK gilt market. As part of those next steps, Ms Reeves announced details of the launch of the procurement process for the
On 10 March 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority published the official translations of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESA) guidelines on templates for explanations and opinions, and the standardised test for crypto-assets, under Article 97 (1) of the Regulation on markets in crypto assets (MiCA).
The guidelines apply from 12
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) introduces a new regulatory framework for crypto-assets in the EU. Published in the OJ in June 2023, it became applicable to issuers of ARTs and EMTs on 30 June 2024 and to CASPs on 30 December 2024. In order to operate in the EU CASPs must be authorised and