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After a year of wrangling, the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) has finally published explanations on how virtual currencies (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin and Co.)

On 15 October 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) presented their report with proposals for revising the Investment Firms...

The EU's Market in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) became fully operational as of 30 December 2024.

The Financial Action Task Force is the organisation that sets global standards (Recommendations) to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism as well as financial crime generally.

As discussed in extensive Thought Leadership coverage from our EU RegCORE as well as wider coverage across the PwC Network, the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) marks...

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has identified six main risks for the German financial sector for 2022, which it intends to address as a priority during the current supervisory cycle.

While regulators were still discussing the most effective way to regulate crowdfunding within the EU, a new wave of alternative financing overwhelmingly took them by surprise:

The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR)Show Footnote, which becomes fully operational from 31 December 2024, is designed to regulate crypto-asset issuers (CAIs) and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).

The EU's Market in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) became fully operational as of 30 December 2024. As explored in PwC Legal's EU RegCORE' series covering developments across the "EU's Digital Single Market.

On August 24, 2018, ESMA announced, in its first use of this power, an extension of the existing ban from October 2, 2018 for binary options for those products it has not exempted from the further extension.

On 15 February 2023, the European Central Bank's (ECB) acting in its role as the head of the Banking Union's Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) published a document setting out...

This decision concerns an invention that relates to a blockchain generation apparatus and a blockchain generation method that generates blockchain data. Since the distinguishing features were considered non-technical.

On 24 February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a public statement addressing the increasing prevalence of derivatives marketed as "perpetual futures"...

This Client Alert is dated as of 13 March 2023 and comes after a range of resolution actions that have been taken in the US, the UK and equally certain measures that have been taken in the EU-27...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its 2024 Annual Report in May 2025 (the Report), providing a comprehensive overview of its regulatory, supervisory and policy activities throughout 2024.

Kryptowährungen – was als Idee einer digitalen Brieftasche begann, hat sich zu einer ernst zu nehmenden und medial viel beachteten Anlageform entwickelt.

In 2019 the ESAs (i.e., EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) published a first joint report (the 2019 Joint Report) on what it termed "Innovation Facilitators" i.e., Innovation Hubs and Regulatory Sandboxes.