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SYDNEY, April 20, 2026 — The Australian Securities and Investments Commission on April 20 published a roadmap outlining how it plans to implement legislation that will bring digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms under Australia’s financial services licensing regime from April 2027.
LONDON, April 22, 2026 — The UK Financial Conduct Authority said it carried out its first operation with partners to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading across multiple London locations, targeting eight premises suspected of operating without the required registration, according to a statement published Wednesday.
LONDON, April 21, 2026 — The UK Financial Conduct Authority said eight firms, including Barclays, Experian, Lloyds Banking Group and UBS, have been selected for the second cohort of its AI Live Testing programme, which is intended to support the safe and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in financial services, according to a statement published Tuesday.
PARIS, April 17, 2026 — French Finance Minister Roland Lescure called for more euro-denominated stablecoins on Friday, saying Europe should accelerate digital-payment alternatives to reduce reliance on non-European providers and dollar-backed tokens, according to Reuters.
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2026 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved coordinated exemptive relief to expand customer cross-margining in the U.S. Treasury market, allowing certain eligible intermediaries to offer customer cross-margining with margin offsets across cleared cash Treasury positions and Treasury futures.
PARIS, April 15, 2026 — The European Securities and Markets Authority published a compliance table showing which national competent authorities comply, or intend to comply, with its MiCA guidelines on suitability requirements and periodic statements for crypto-asset portfolio management activities.
LONDON, April 15, 2026 — The Financial Conduct Authority launched a consultation on proposed guidance for the United Kingdom’s future cryptoasset regulatory regime, seeking industry feedback on how firms should assess whether their activities fall within the scope of regulation.
FRANKFURT, April 14, 2026 — Deutsche Börse AG said it will invest $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, in a transaction that expands links between traditional market infrastructure and digital-asset trading venues.
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2026 — The staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets said certain providers of user interfaces used to prepare transactions in crypto asset securities could create, offer, or operate those interfaces without registering as broker-dealers, provided they satisfy a detailed set of conditions.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2026 — A federal court in Arizona granted a temporary restraining order requested by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission barring the state from continuing criminal enforcement proceedings against CFTC-regulated designated contract markets, according to a CFTC press release.
