The European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) has been tabled for an April 18 discussion in the European Parliament, heralding final formal agreement of the landmark law that brings in a crypto licensing regime across the bloc, according to an agenda published on the parliament’s website.

The financial regulatory body of the Netherlands intends to maintain tough attitude towards the Dutch digital assets sector despite looser European rules. The head of the agency overseeing the industry doesn’t think crypto is good news and highlights its flaws in an article.

As crypto firms in the U.S scramble for alternatives to Silvergate and Signature Bank, an opportunity to capitalize on the calamity presents itself for Europe.

The Netherlands will take a tough line enforcing new European Union crypto rules even if it means business goes elsewhere, the head of the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) has said in an article published Friday.

As the European Union’s Market in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation edges closer to becoming law, politicians in the region, led by Belgium, are moving a step further: creating a proprietary blockchain.

Policymakers in the European Parliament are negotiating changes to the text of an EU anti-money laundering bill to highlight that NFT platforms or other companies providing services related to NFTs are covered by the regulation.

France's financial market regulator will detail new requirements for crypto firms to register in the country, its head, Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, said Wednesday.

A year after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine continues working on cryptocurrency legislation, but the war has not changed its regulatory stance, according to a Kyiv official.

A delegation of U.S. congressional staff meeting with crypto industry representatives in Brussels on Wednesday featured hard questions and concerns over preventing another FTX. It also highlighted political splits in U.S. views on digital assets.  

The Bank of Italy is looking for new ways to apply distributed ledger technology (DLT) and is preparing for the advent of Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, bank governor Ignazio Visco told a congress of Assiom Forex, the Italian financial markets association, on Feb. 4.