Paris-based Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange) has become the first company in Europe authorized to operate a fully tokenized equity exchange, the company said on Thursday. The exchange, which targets the SME IPO market in France, received a DLT TSS license from France’s financial regulator, the ACPR, under the EU’s Distributed Ledger Technology Pilot Regime, according […]
Fasset, a digital asset investment platform, has been given a provisional banking license in Malaysia, clearing the way for what it calls the world’s first stablecoin-powered Islamic digital bank. The move places Fasset within a regulated sandbox for Islamic fintech, enabling the company to expand its existing digital asset platform into full-service banking, the company […]
Crypto exchange Bybit has been granted a license in Austria in compliance with Europe’s framework for dealing in digital assets, the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime, according to the website of the local regulator FMA. Europe’s new MiCA rules came into force at the start of this year, prompting firms to select the most […]