In a move that redraws the line between crypto and traditional finance, the US derivatives regulator has confirmed that Bitcoin and Ethereum can serve as collateral in regulated futures and swaps markets. Four days later, Congress is convening to discuss what comes next.

After months of stalled negotiations, Washington's long-awaited stablecoin legislation has a working compromise.

US regulators issued long-awaited guidance clarifying how federal securities and commodities laws apply to digital assets, signaling a significant shift in the government’s approach to overseeing the crypto industry.

Australia is moving closer to introducing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry after the country’s Senate Economics Legislation Committee recommended passing the Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill 2025.

The stablecoin debate in Washington has been grinding on for months, and with a hard deadline now in view, one of the House's top crypto legislators is telling the Senate to stop stalling.

HSBC and a Standard Chartered-led joint venture are positioned to be among the first recipients of Hong Kong licences under the city's new stablecoin regulatory framework

The U.S. Senate has drawn a hard line on the digital dollar. With an 89-10 vote, lawmakers passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act - a sweeping bipartisan housing package that buried within its text a significant financial policy decision: a temporary prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency, effective through December 31, 2030.

South Korea's National Tax Service is building one of the more aggressive crypto surveillance systems seen anywhere.

On March 11, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that formally ends what SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called decades of "regulatory turf wars."

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is drawing a hard line between traditional banking and digital assets. On March 11, 2026, FDIC Chairman Travis Hill announced a proposed rule that would formally exclude payment stablecoins from all federal deposit insurance.

Australia's financial regulator is drawing a hard line on how the crypto industry should be governed — and it has little patience for firms trying to use technological jargon to sidestep existing rules.