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MiCA, Section 1033, the AI Act, stablecoin licensing, financial-crime regimes, consumer protection. The rule-making that governs fintechs.
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The Financial Conduct Authority has published the final rules for the UK's cryptoasset regime, requiring trading platforms, intermediaries, custodians, stablecoin issuers and staking firms to obtain FCA authorisation to serve UK customers.
10 JUL 2026
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have set out how they will share responsibility for regulating the largest stablecoins, with the Bank taking the backing assets and the FCA keeping conduct and consumer protection.
10 JUL 2026
Buy now, pay later becomes a regulated product in the UK on 15 July, and the most demanding part of the new regime lands on the smallest purchases.
10 JUL 2026
Aviva, one of the UK's largest pension providers, is moving to deliver financial advice and guidance at scale under Britain's new Targeted Support regime, in one of the first big provider deployments since the rules took effect.
10 JUL 2026
FCA’s Mills review says retail financial services are moving towards AI-enabled and delegated journeys, raising questions over advice, redress, Big Tech and supervision.
6 JUL 2026
Crypto scams topped $14billion in 2025, as pig butchering networks became more industrialised, AI-enabled and harder to disrupt.
5 JUL 2026
The FCA has finalised its wider UK crypto rulebook as the Bank of England and FCA set out how stablecoin issuers will move into joint supervision if they become systemically important.
1 JUL 2026
Binance will restrict EU services from 1 July after missing the MiCA deadline, as authorised rivals prepare to gain customers.
28 JUN 2026
Following a $3.2 million funding round, Kalipso co-founders Pierre Ferran and Virginia Debernardi share insight into how the company plans to grow its regulatory compliance platform and why AI-generated advice must always lead back to the law.
26 JUN 2026
MEPs have backed a digital euro with free basic services and privacy safeguards, as Moody’s points to uncertain demand and high bank costs.
25 JUN 2026
eToro and Charles Stanley Direct say the UK’s new 22% charge on cash interest in Stocks and Shares ISAs could add complexity and deter cautious savers from investing.
25 JUN 2026
Fintech and payments leaders are seeking continuity on regulation and investment as Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation opens another period of political uncertainty.
23 JUN 2026
The Bank of England has dropped proposed customer holding limits and relaxed its backing rules, but industry groups say the revised framework could still weaken the commercial case for sterling stablecoi
22 JUN 2026
Social media platforms and telecoms providers are facing renewed calls to stop fraud closer to its source after UK payment fraud losses rose to £1.28 billion in 2025.
15 JUN 2026
A new global report says beneficial ownership registers need better cross-border links to help banks, regulators and law enforcement trace hidden ownership structures.
11 JUN 2026
Ripjar research shows financial institutions increasingly treat adverse media screening as a core financial crime control, but manual searches and fragmented systems remain common.
1 JUN 2026
Research from VinciWorks suggests a gap between compliance confidence and practical preparation, with crypto exposure emerging as one of the clearest weak spots.
26 MAY 2026
Trump’s fintech order has put non-bank access to US payment rails back in focus, with regulators asked to review how fintech firms fit into core infrastructure.
22 MAY 2026
Tennessee has introduced a tax on overseas money transfers, drawing fintech industry criticism as US remittance rules become more complicated.
22 MAY 2026
Kaspersky research finds that nearly half of adults experienced tech-enabled abuse in the past year, while awareness of the term remains low.
21 MAY 2026
Industry figures have responded to reports that the Bank of England is reconsidering proposed stablecoin holding caps and reserve requirements.
17 MAY 2026
The 2026 King’s Speech sets out reforms affecting UK fintech, payments and digital finance, from PSR consolidation and digital ID to cyber resilience and late payment protections.
13 MAY 2026
Australia’s proposed CGT reforms have prompted fintech warnings over startup funding, employee equity incentives and early-stage investment.
13 MAY 2026
Regulation decides what fintechs can build and how fast they can ship it. Fintechly’s policy desk covers the supervisors, the statutes and the enforcement that set those limits: MiCA, Section 1033, the AI Act, stablecoin licensing regimes, financial-crime rules and consumer-protection reform.
We report what a rule actually requires, when it bites, and who is exposed, rather than reprinting the regulator’s summary. Coverage spans the major regimes across the UK, EU, US and the Gulf, so compliance and policy teams can see a change coming while there is still time to act on it.
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WHAT FINTECHLY IS TRACKING
EU
The ESMA Level 3 paper on MiCA distribution that may close the passporting loophole.
US
How big banks plan to comply with finalised CFPB Section 1033 by the deadline.
UK
The PSR's draft consultation on APP fraud reimbursement after the volume rebound.
ASIA
Singapore's MAS digital-bank licence review and what it changes for the four licensees.
MENA
Dubai's first three RWA licensees and what they are bringing on-chain.
GLOBAL
Which European banks will mint their own MiCA-licensed euro stablecoin first.
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