One hundred days after MiCA's grandfathering deadline closed the EU's regulatory on-ramp for crypto firms, the new MiCA stablecoin rules have done more to reshape euro liquidity than any market rally. Euro-pegged stablecoin supply has climbed 22.6% this year to $848.1 million, while the dollar segment sits flat, according to Token Terminal data cited in a new report from Finery Markets. The institutional read is blunt: compliant euro issuance is taking share inside a market t

As of this week, tokenised securities are no longer the thing Wall Street talks about at conferences. They are the thing being settled. The month FMI stopped waiting For years, "tokenisation of financial market infrastructure" has been a slide. This month, it became a settlement. The DTCC is in the middle of its broader October rollout of a tokenised securities platform that, according to coverage from CoinDesk in May and reinforced by secondary trackers through the summer, h

Bitget has opened a route for investors to move shares they already hold at a traditional broker onto its exchange, launching a tokenised stock transfer feature that covers more than 3,000 US-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds. Existing holdings are converted into on-chain tokens, which Bitget calls rTokens, that can then be traded, lent, borrowed against or posted as margin inside the exchange. For finance professionals, the detail that matters sits beneath the convenie

YeePay, one of China’s earliest licensed payment companies, has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the Dutch central bank, on 13 October 2026. The approval gives the Beijing firm a regulated base inside the European Union and a second European permission to sit beside the UK EMI licence it obtained from the Financial Conduct Authority earlier this year. For finance professionals, the more useful framing is what the licen

Aviva's claims agent is nearly live, Corgi keeps cashing cheques, and the industry's lawyers are quietly getting louder. A pragmatic read of where InsurTech stands as of this week. As of this week, InsurTech has stopped debating whether AI should run claims and underwriting, and started arguing about who pays when it goes wrong. Aviva confirmed in its half-year filing that an AI enabled claims agent is on the near-term roadmap. Carriers like Corgi and Honeycomb are scaling up

Bregal Milestone, a European software private equity firm with about €2.3 billion raised since inception, is taking majority control of Asolvi, the Norwegian maker of AI field service software used by fire, security and utilities contractors, buying out the vendor's existing backers Volpi Capital and Viking Growth. The deal hands Asolvi's roughly 2,000 customers a third private equity owner in just over a decade, with chief executive Nick Barnett and his management team reinv