Digital currencies

The measure would kill innovation in Europe and drive technology to the US, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier warns.

Current tax treatment of crypto assets is ‘minimal,’ according to Fabio Panetta.

Estonia clamped down on crypto. Now its Baltic neighbors are following suit to protect their economies from dirty money.

Crypto companies will also be forced to limit their services to Russians in Europe.

MEPs were shocked at the level of abuse over draft oversight rules for the market.

Pascal Gauthier accuses some MEPs of waging a war against Bitcoin.

The country has beefed up anti-money laundering efforts to overcome the legacy of scandal.

At issue is crypto’s existential question: Is it an asset or is it money?

Watchdogs say ‘consumers face the very real possibility of losing all their invested money if they buy these assets.’

Left-leaning MEPs had pushed to phase carbon-intensive blockchains out of the crypto market.

Watchdogs aim to make Tallinn inhospitable for illicit financiers.

Officials have played down the risk of oligarchs using the crypto market to move their money around.

Cryptocurrencies may seem like a good tool for evading sanctions, but it’s a workaround littered with booby traps.

The legislative process is timed in lockstep with the European Central Bank’s in-house experiments on virtual currency.

Meta’s payment project may have needed to die so that crypto can live.

Policymakers, especially in Europe, saw the project as a challenge to monetary sovereignty.

Bitstamp favors new crypto safeguards, even if it pushes some out of the market.

Crypto assets and stock markets tend to move in tandem, economists found.

Changpeng Zhao is looking for crypto enthusiasts across the bloc to expand his trading empire.

Part of the regulator’s recent slowdown in approvals is ‘deliberate,’ FCA chief tells MPs.

The ECB’s efforts have been jolted by the tech giants, who are developing new payment methods with digital assets.

The government is trying to make a novel experiment work by tackling the virtual currency’s biggest flaw — price stability.

Beijing has already cracked down the digital giants that dominate its online payments.

Poll suggests the Bank of England has a long way to go to convince Brits of the merits of central bank-backed digital currencies.