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Ripple announced that it has received full approval of its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from Luxembourg’s financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), enabling it to provide regulated electronic money services across the European Union.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published guidelines setting criteria for the assessment of knowledge and competence under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, reported profits exceeding $10 billion in 2025, alongside $6.3 billion in excess reserves and record exposure of $141 billion to U.S. Treasury holdings, according to the company’s latest attestation update.
Senior leaders of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) this week discussed closer coordination on digital asset regulation during a joint public event focused on harmonizing oversight of crypto markets.
Standard Chartered has warned that accelerating stablecoin adoption could put as much as $500 billion of U.S. bank deposits at risk by the end of 2028, as payment activity and other core banking functions increasingly shift toward dollar-pegged digital tokens, according to Reuters.
The White House is scheduled to host senior executives from the banking and cryptocurrency sectors to discuss a compromise on stalled U.S. digital asset legislation, according to Reuters.
Fidelity Investments is preparing to launch a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin in the coming weeks, marking a further step by a major asset manager into tokenized payment infrastructure, according to Bloomberg.
Laser Digital Americas Group Holdings Inc., the digital asset subsidiary of Japanese financial group Nomura Holdings, said it has filed an application with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to form a federally regulated national trust bank focused on digital asset custody and trading services, according to a company press release distributed via GlobeNewswire.
Crypto payments infrastructure firm Mesh has secured $75 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, according to a company announcement distributed via PR Newswire.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published a response letter addressing a January 9 submission from Ripple related to digital asset market structure.
