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UK government body regulating financial services firms and markets, overseeing conduct, consumer protection, and market integrity in the UK.
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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A dev.to walkthrough moves fintech conversion tracking into a Node.js worker that posts hashed deposit events to Meta's Conversions API. Its own latency numbers do not survive a Thursday signup.
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The platform holding 33.6% of direct-to-consumer assets is charging 0.35%, capped at £12.50 a month, to hold notes that HMRC has confined since 6 April to an ISA fewer than 150,000 savers appear to use.
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Payward held about $606m of a $2.5bn tokenized equity market in August, barely ahead of Binance's two-month-old product, and the LSE deal buys it inventory it could not get any other way while leaving UK investors out.
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A forum seller wants $600 for what they say are 877,000 EV salary sacrifice driver records, and the 999-row sample published as proof holds up under structural testing in ways a fabricated file usually does not.
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Fifty-six per cent of 18- to 40-year-old investors trust AI tools more than TV, press or influencers, and a third expect compensation cover that does not exist. The shortfall lands on them.
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The FCA and Bank of England have staffed their reporting harmonisation taskforce with at least 49 named participants across three working groups. The membership, not the framing, shows the scope.
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A scheme that sold the appearance of investor visa qualification has cost three named individuals their standing in UK finance, and one of them is still contesting it.
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The regulator says the big design questions are now settled. Everything after that, procurement included, has to fit inside a clock that is already running.
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