Articles tagged with "Financial Conduct Authority"
The FCA is opening the door for UK retail investors to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum ETNs from 8 October 2025, but there’s a catch: these are price-tracking notes, not direct crypto ownership, and they come without FSCS protection. Plenty of access, still plenty of risk.
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Hargreaves Lansdown is set to offer eligible UK clients access to Bitcoin-linked ETNs after the FCA relaxed its rules, but this is not a full-throated Bitcoin embrace. The platform still calls crypto risky and unsuitable for most goals, with access expected in 2026.
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Binance is reportedly preparing a bid for UK FCA authorization as Britain’s new crypto regime nears a 2027 launch. But approval is far from assured, and the FCA is making clear that old AML registrations won’t get firms a free pass.
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The UK is pulling crypto under its main financial rulebook, giving the FCA wider oversight over exchanges, custody, staking and more, while treating stablecoins as a key part of payments infrastructure. The goal: make Britain more crypto-competitive without turning it into a free-for-all.
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The UK’s FCA has finalized a broad crypto rulebook covering exchanges, custodians, stablecoin issuers, and staking firms, with tougher standards on capital, custody, consumer protection, and market abuse. Stablecoins get especially sharp oversight, while full authorization kicks in in 2027.
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The UK’s FCA is easing parts of its crypto rulebook after industry pushback, trimming some compliance friction while keeping tighter oversight in place. It’s a sign Britain wants crypto to stay — just not as a scam-friendly free-for-all.
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The UK is ending its crypto regulatory limbo. The FCA has set a 2027 start for a full authorization regime, and existing AML registrations won’t carry over — forcing exchanges, custodians, stablecoin issuers and more to meet tougher standards or get left behind.
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The UK’s financial watchdog has moved tokenization out of the marketing sludge and into regulated finance. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved rules that let asset managers use blockchain-based registers as the official record of fund ownership, alongside a new Direct-to-Fund model that cuts out intermediaries in fund dealing. PS26/7 makes onchain fund registers […]
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UK House of Lords Dives into Stablecoin Inquiry: Digital Finance Revolution or Regulatory Quagmire? Could a digital version of the pound redefine UK finance, or is it a Pandora’s box of risks waiting to burst open? The UK House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee has launched a landmark inquiry into stablecoins, with a sharp […]
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UK to Regulate Crypto Under Financial Services Laws by 2027: A Game-Changer or a Chain? The United Kingdom is poised to drag the crypto world into the realm of traditional finance, with a landmark plan to regulate cryptocurrency firms under existing financial services laws by October 2027. This move by the UK Treasury could either […]
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