
FINMA Clears Switzerland's First Retail Bitcoin ETF, Issuer Unnamed
Switzerland's regulator approved a fund holding bitcoin directly under fund law and waived its own diversification rules. It will not name the issuer.
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Switzerland's regulator approved a fund holding bitcoin directly under fund law and waived its own diversification rules. It will not name the issuer.

Mr Justice Turner ruled on Monday that Chinese law decides whether fraud victims own any of the 61,000 bitcoin. The judgment does not settle who keeps them.

The JB Financial Group unit lends won to corporate clients against bitcoin held by a registered custodian, with recovery on default through a court sale.

The SEC issued its crypto ETF rules on Thursday. Funds may hold only bitcoin or ether, must list at home, and the regime starts on 16 October.

Germany's regulator turned down futurum bank AG's application to operate as a crypto-asset service provider. Trading on bitcoin.de has been halted since June.

The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.

A bill approved 28-21 would move roughly 324,527 bitcoin already in federal hands into one reserve and bar any sale for at least 20 years. It now goes to the full House.

Bitcoin fell from an overnight high of $79,530 to about $77,400 on Tuesday, hours before the Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The procedural vote needed 60. A widely shared post puts the later price far lower.

Block has applied to charter Builders Bank and Trust, an uninsured national bank for bitcoin and stablecoin custody. It would take no deposits and make no loans.

New York's financial regulator granted Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC a BitLicense on 27 May 2026, and a social post revived the news this week as if it were fresh. Mastercard's own statement ties the approval to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, not bitcoin.

The UK platform opened bitcoin and ether ETNs on 3 September, eleven months after the FCA lifted its retail ban. Stocks-and-shares ISAs are excluded.

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.