
Britain Plans a Stablecoin Innovation Objective for the Bank of England
HM Treasury will amend the Financial Services and Markets Bill to give the Bank of England a secondary objective covering payments innovation and stablecoins.
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HM Treasury will amend the Financial Services and Markets Bill to give the Bank of England a secondary objective covering payments innovation and stablecoins.

The SEC sent a crypto custody rule for investment advisers to White House budget review on 25 August. The text is not public and nothing binds yet.

Nikkei reported that the FSA, the finance ministry and the Bank of Japan will study blockchain rails for stocks and government bonds. None has confirmed it.

Thailand's regulator put draft rules for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether funds out for comment until 20 September. Foreign products stay outside the first phase.

The five-agency customer identification proposal for stablecoin issuers closed comments on 21 August. Both letters located press on the same two definitions.

The Responsible Fintech Institute launched a pilot with two banks and three regulators, testing quantum-resistant transfers on a NEAR testnet.

Pakistan's PVARA opened its licensing portal and gave firms trading before 5 March until 5 September to file a no-objection certificate or stop.

An SEC staff letter dated 12 August, reported eight days later, clears Franklin Templeton's traditional funds to hold tokenized BENJI shares for cash management.

BitGo Korea won VASP registration from the KoFIU, with Hana Financial and SK Telecom as shareholders. No foreign digital asset firm held the licence before.

The SEC proposed its first crypto-specific offering regime on 18 August, pairing two registration exemptions with a conditional safe harbor and a 60-day comment period.

Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda Asset Management €70,000 over a late white-paper filing and marketing lapses, the first penalty any EU regulator has published under MiCA.

Treasury's first GENIUS Act proposal defines who issues a payment stablecoin in the US and who may offer or sell one, with a 60-day comment clock now running.