The European Union’s securities regulator plans to make artificial intelligence and tokenization a supervisory priority starting in 2027, signaling a broader regulatory focus on how emerging technologies are being used across financial services. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said it will work with...
The European Union’s landmark AI Act entered a new phase on Sunday (Aug. 2) as the regulation’s transparency provisions became enforceable. With that step, the compliance burden shifts from artificial intelligence (AI) developers alone to banks, insurers, payments companies and other financial institutions deploying customer-facing...
Germany’s financial regulator wants to pay closer attention to the banking sector’s artificial intelligence (AI) use. This move by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), announced Wednesday (July 29), comes after the watchdog was granted new powers under the European Union’s AI Act. “We will...
Cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay has received authorization to operate across the European Union under the bloc’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, the company announced Thursday (July 16). The approval, granted by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), designates the firm’s European subsidiary,...
June 04, 2026
Government tech procurement has mostly come down to price, performance and who could land the contract fastest. The EU just signaled that era is ending. With its new Tech Sovereignty Package unveiled on Tuesday (June 2), the European Commission is repositioning procurement as an instrument of economic strategy and digital resilience rather than a purely […]
May 25, 2026
Europe’s instant payments agenda has crossed a threshold. The rails are largely in place. Now institutions face the harder task of rewiring everything around them. That’s the central finding of...
May 21, 2026
The EU’s landmark crypto framework is entering its first recalibration phase, barely two years after implementation began. On Wednesday (May 20) the European Commission officially opened up to public and...
January 01, 2026
A new presidential administration in the United States and a new executive commission in the European Union transformed technology regulation in 2025. They each had different views from their predecessors...
September 29, 2026
Reforms in the United States, Europe and an alliance between the two could revive a West that is in military and economic decline, JPMorganChase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said in a Monday (Sept. 28) opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. should improve its domestic economic policy by reforming federal, state and […]
September 24, 2026
The European Union’s securities regulator plans to make artificial intelligence and tokenization a supervisory priority starting in 2027, signaling a broader regulatory focus on how emerging technologies are being used...
July 29, 2026
Germany’s financial regulator wants to pay closer attention to the banking sector’s artificial intelligence (AI) use. This move by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), announced Wednesday (July 29), comes...
July 16, 2026
Cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay has received authorization to operate across the European Union under the bloc’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, the company announced Thursday (July 16). The approval,...
