Tag: MiCA
DORA compliance strains firms as NCA scrutiny tightens
More than a year after the Digital Operational Resilience Act began to apply, many financial services firms are discovering that compliance is not a...
CUBE: Why relevance now decides the compliance workload
Regulators across Europe and beyond are no longer simply adding rules. They are reshaping them, and that shift puts new pressure on compliance and...
Noah secures EU licences to expand digital asset payments
Noah, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, has secured regulatory approval to offer digital asset payment services across the European Union after obtaining a Markets...
Eight rules that will test compliance teams in 2026
Financial services remains one of the world's most tightly regulated sectors, and the challenge for compliance teams goes well beyond the volume of rules....
UpsideOnly tops 400,000 users across 172 countries
Perpetuals’ UpsideOnly trading platform has surpassed 400,000 users across 172 countries, after adding more than 100,000 customers in less than two weeks. UpsideOnly, the market...
MiCA’s deadline just redrew Europe’s digital assets map
Europe's crypto industry has lost its last regulatory safety net. On July 1, 2026, the transitional "grandfathering" period under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets...
How three regulatory shifts are rewriting EU payments compliance
European payments firms are confronting a rare convergence of regulatory pressures, and most compliance teams are being asked to absorb all three simultaneously. The...
Why KYC fragmentation is costing firms more than they think
Client onboarding has long been viewed as a regulatory necessity, but leading firms are increasingly treating it as a competitive advantage. By combining KYC,...
MiCA era warning: Coinbase Ireland AML failures exposed
Coinbase Europe, the Dublin-based arm of the US crypto exchange, has received a €21.5m penalty from the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) after the...
Global AML roundup: enforcement actions that shaped 2025
Europe saw some of the most high-profile AML enforcement actions of 2025, with regulators continuing to signal that long-standing control weaknesses will not be...










