Brazil blocks stablecoins from key cross-border payment rail as $1.1 trillion market faces new limits
Brazil’s central bank will bar virtual assets, including stablecoins, from settling one specific type of international payment flow starting Oct. 1. Resolution 561 targets the…
FCA draws the UK boundary for offshore crypto platforms ahead of 2027 rules
The UK Financial Conduct Authority says overseas crypto providers can fall inside the country’s incoming authorization regime when they serve British consumers, even when the…
US sanctions Iranian crypto exchange and its software developer over alleged IRGC Bitcoin transfers
The US sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, widening its campaign against digital-asset infrastructure allegedly used to finance the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On Sept.…
SEC and CFTC bypass Congress to open crypto access after CLARITY fails – with a catch
Two days after the US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, federal regulators opened two narrower routes for crypto-linked market access under existing law.…