ESMA told national regulators to make MiCA-authorized crypto firms clear their remaining exposure to non-compliant stablecoins by Jan. 8, 2027. New buying stops first, so the three months are an exit window in which platforms find out whether client balances get converted in-house or withdrawn.
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Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.
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ESMA and regulators in France, Germany and Greece are examining how Binance still serves EU users without the MiCA license it needed by July 1. The inquiry tests whether a narrow exemption can hold an exchange's European business while it waits for authorization.
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ESMA asked the European Commission on September 30 to extend MiCA's ban on non-compliant stablecoins to custody and transfers. Holders who kept such tokens with EU custodians after the 2025 delistings would lose that last licensed option.
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Polymarket has taken $77,507 in positions on whether the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, fail by year-end. For British lenders the exposure is how fast that price could travel on social media during a period of stress.
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Europe's central banks asked Brussels to extend MiCA's stablecoin interest ban to lending and staking, a move a campaign says 50,000-plus citizens opposed. A ban that reaches borrower-paid returns could leave euro-regulated tokens unable to match perks offered by dollar stablecoins.
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ESMA and French, German and Greek regulators are examining Binance's use of MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after it missed the July 1 licence deadline. Whether that deadline binds now depends on proving who initiated each customer relationship.
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ESMA proposed a new regulated MiCA service for firms that give users access to DeFi, a sector the EBA and ESMA put at about 4% of global crypto value. Exchanges and wallet apps serving EU users would carry the compliance cost, while the protocol code itself stays outside the regime.
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ESMA asked the European Commission's MiCA review on September 30 for power to freeze crypto assets on 'reasonable grounds' and block scam websites. Unlicensed offshore firms courting EU customers face the most risk, and licensed providers would carry new marketing curbs.
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UC San Diego and Inria researchers forged a 1024-bit RSA signature through an HSM in 1,380 core-years, against at least 500,000 to factor the key. The attack only works with raw, unpadded signing access, so how exposed a custodian is depends on how its HSM is configured.
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EBA asks the European Commission to weigh bringing crypto lending, found in at least 16 member states, under MiCA's regulated services. Its formal request is a cost-benefit study first, so suitability tests and leverage caps remain options.
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Combined Kalshi and Polymarket volume reached $53 billion in July, an annual pace above Bernstein's forecast for all of 2026, and Senate Banking Democrats say contracts tied to corporate metrics belong to the SEC.
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The Joint Committee of the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA handed EU governments an autumn risk update that puts reliance on non-EU ICT, clearing, ratings and foreign-currency funding at the top, with AI-enabled attacks and quantum next.
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Polymarket has approached the European Commission, ESMA and the FCA's chief executive to be regulated under MiFID, the Financial Times reports. Spain blocked it in May and France followed in July.
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Polymarket wants ESMA and the FCA to supervise its event contracts as financial instruments instead of gambling products. The MiFID label it is asking for comes with the EU's retail binary-options restrictions attached.
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Binance spent about 18 months on its Greek MiCA file and withdrew it on June 24, a week before the deadline, after Greek officials had already told ESMA the regulator intended to approve.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that ECB President Christine Lagarde urged Greece's prime minister to reject the application. Binance pulled out before any decision issued, so there is no refusal it can contest.
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build1 publisherOne report Article 143(3) ran out on 1 July 2026, so from that date Article 59 applies to EU client business without exception, and the register that decides who sits inside the perimeter is still being revised week by week.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority put the phrase in a report published Thursday. Among the venues it describes is Polymarket, valued at $21 billion after Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital bought in when it was worth under a billion.
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In a Thursday risk report the EU securities regulator said event contracts generally need an authorisation neither platform holds, then split those contracts across binary-options rules, MiCA and national gambling law.
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