Regulations

Strategy has challenged MSCI's proposed “non-operating company” screen by tying it to a regulatory argument MSCI made four years ago in a letter shared on Aug. 31.The Bitcoin treasury company says the new methodology requires MSCI to judge…

Britain is widening its Russia sanctions crackdown from named entities to the payment routes that keep sanctioned networks moving money.On Aug. 31, the National Crime Agency issued its first nationwide industry alert on the A7 network,…

Russia’s new crypto law took effect Sept. 1, but investors cannot yet access the full market it promises.Federal Law No. 282-FZ gives cryptocurrency a formal place within Russia’s supervised financial system, allowing regulated investment…

The SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets offers a $75 million fundraising ceiling. A Senate market-structure framework starts with a greater-of-$50-million-or-10% formula. Those numbers look comparable, but they attach to different legal…

Stablecoin demand is becoming consequential in the U.S. government debt market, but the maturity of that demand matters more than the headline total.Washington now has two debt-market stories running at once. The federal framework for…

Treasury’s proposed rules under the GENIUS Act, the new US stablecoin law, would let US exchanges and other digital-asset service providers keep offering some foreign-issued payment stablecoins, but only if they can defend why they trusted…

A White House speech insider who worked as a teleprompter operator must surrender $107,539.02 in prediction-market profits after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that he traded on advance access to presidential speeches.The…

Wall Street now wants a ticker to hold almost any financial idea an investor might type into a brokerage search bar, from Bitcoin and funds promising two or three times a stock's daily return to private assets and contracts tied to…

A US Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to create two crypto fundraising exemptions had drawn 31 posted public comments as of Aug. 27, plus one separately labeled meeting memorandum.With comments due Oct. 20, remaining commenters…

The SEC crypto custody rewrite for investment advisers and funds, including their crypto assets, entered White House review on Aug. 25. The move starts an active pre-publication review of an economically significant proposal with direct…