On 10 April 2026, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority granted stablecoin issuer licences under the Hong Kong Stablecoins Ordinance (Cap. 656) to Anchorpoint Financial Limited and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, for the issuance of stablecoins in Hong Kong... read more

#HKMA #Stablecoin #HongKongCrypto #StablecoinsOrdinance #CryptoRegulation #DigitalAssets

In May 2026, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Securities and Futures Commission jointly published their consultation conclusions on the legislative proposal to regulate virtual asset advisory service providers and virtual asset management service providers in Hong Kong... read more

#SFC #VirtualAssets #HongKongCrypto #CryptoRegulation #VAAdvisory #VAManagement

On 12 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced the appointment of John Moses as Director of its Office of Investor Education and Assistance... read more

#SEC #InvestorEducation #InvestorProtection #FinancialLiteracy #USSEC #CapitalMarkets

On 11 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to rescind Rules 611 and 610(e) of Regulation NMS, marking a potential shift in the regulation of United States equity markets... read more

#SEC #RegulationNMS #TradeThroughRule #EquityMarkets #MarketStructure #USSEC

On 18 June 2026, Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced its Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Reference Guide for the Financial Industry, providing financial institutions with a phased framework for addressing cybersecurity risks arising from advances in quantum computing... read more

#FSC #PostQuantum #PQC #QuantumCryptography #CyberSecurity #TaiwanFinance

On 18 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission jointly issued a Request for Comment titled Joint Request for Comment on Swap and Security Based Swap Data Reporting... read more

#SEC #CFTC #SwapReporting #Derivatives #DoddFrank #MarketRegulation

On 18 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission jointly issued a Request for Comment titled Joint Request for Comment on Further Definition of “Swap” and “Security Based Swap” and on Alternative Compliance... read more

#SEC #CFTC #SwapDefinition #EventContracts #DoddFrank #DerivativesRegulation

On 24 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission appointed Kathleen M. Hutchinson as Director of the Office of International Affairs, the division responsible for advising the Commission on international regulatory policy, coordinating cross border supervisory and enforcement cooperation, and engaging with foreign regulatory authorities worldwide... read more

#SEC #InternationalAffairs #CrossBorder #RegulatoryCooperation #USSEC #GlobalMarkets

On 24 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission issued an Order under Section 8(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 declaring that BlackRock Collateral Trust has ceased to be an investment company... read more

#SEC #BlackRock #InvestmentCompanyAct #Deregistration #InvestmentCompany #USSEC

On 24 June 2026, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi set out the regulator's evolving approach to artificial intelligence, agentic finance, tokenisation and financial market resilience during his keynote address at tech UK's Agents of Change: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Services 2026... read more

#FCA #AI #AgenticAI #Tokenisation #UKFinance #FinancialResilience

On 26 June 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a joint request for public comment on potential approaches to further implement and... read more

#SEC #CFTC #PortfolioMargining #CrossMargining #MarginFramework #Derivatives

On 2 June 2026, US SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce delivered remarks titled “Base Case: Remarks at the IC3 Blockchain Camp” at Princeton University... read more

#SEC #HesterPeirce #Crypto #DeFi #Blockchain #SecuritiesRegulation

On 13 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) drew attention to the June 2026 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Statement... read more

#MAS #FATF #AML #Sanctions #SingaporeFinance #HighRiskJurisdictions

On 25 June 2026, Singapore MAS announced the establishment of the Future of Finance Institute, a new coordinating body designed to accelerate the adoption of frontier financial technologies, with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and tokenisation... read more

#MAS #AI #Tokenisation #FinTech #SingaporeFinance #FutureOfFinance

On 25 June 2026, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued an updated class no-action letter for digital asset businesses... read more

#ASIC #DigitalAssets #Crypto #AFSL #AustraliaCrypto #NoActionLetter

On 1 July 2026, the licensing requirements under California’s Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL) took effect, requiring cryptoasset businesses conducting covered activities with or on behalf of California residents to hold a licence from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), have submitted a completed licence application, or fall within a statutory exemption... read more

#DFAL #DFPI #CaliforniaCrypto #CryptoLicensing #DigitalAssets #CryptoRegulation

On 1 July 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) announced that its Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) had published updated statistics and interactive data visualisations covering key areas of the United States capital markets... read more

#SEC #IPO #CapitalMarkets #DERA #USMarkets #PublicOfferings

On 6 July 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) announced the appointment of Paul Knight as its Chief Operating Officer... read more

#SEC #PaulKnight #COO #SECOperations #EDGAR #USSEC

On 7 July 2026, United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins outlined the US SEC’s 2026 Regulatory Agenda, centred on digital asset innovation, public-market revitalisation and broader investor access to private markets... read more

#SEC #PaulAtkins #DigitalAssets #Crypto #CapitalFormation #RegulatoryAgenda

On 8 July 2026, the Supervision Committee of Latvijas Banka issued an electronic money institution licence to SIA MOIN Payments... read more

#Latvia #EMI #ElectronicMoney #Payments #Fintech #MiCA