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LATEST: 🇰🇷 South Korea's Meritz Securities is partnering with Ripple to explore tokenization and Ripple Custody for the country's capital markets.

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LATEST: 🇰🇷 South Korea's tax chief Lim Kwang-hyun says the agency is preparing crypto tax guidelines for around November, with verification set to begin from tax returns filed in May 2028.

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LATEST: 🇰🇷 South Korea's top financial regulator says talks on the Digital Asset Basic Act are in the final stages, with the bill set to cover exchange licensing and stablecoin issuance rules.

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LATEST: 🇰🇷 South Korean matchmaker Gayeon says singles now prefer people working at semiconductor and AI-related companies over doctors and lawyers.

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LATEST: 🇰🇷 The Bank of Korea launched a 24-hour offshore won settlement pilot with four domestic banks, targeting full operations in January 2027.

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LATEST: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan's central bank has signed an MoU with Tether to explore a tenge-pegged stablecoin.

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LATEST: 🇱🇹 Lithuania's tax authority has revised its crypto reporting procedures to align with the EU's DAC8 directive, tightening the definitions of reportable users and persons for service providers.

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LATEST: 🇲🇾 Bank Negara Malaysia launched SSDS+, a DLT platform for issuing and holding tokenized bonds, including sukuk, with settlement in central bank money.

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LATEST: 🇳🇬 Nigeria's central bank now requires licenses for stablecoin issuers, with separate categories for naira-linked and foreign-currency tokens and approval needed for each token before issuance.

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LATEST: 🇵🇭 The Philippines' central bank proposed freezing new payment-system operator registrations for 12 months to overhaul its licensing framework.

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LATEST: 🇵🇱 Poland's parliament failed to override President Karol Nawrocki's veto of a crypto regulation bill for the third time, falling 25 votes short of the required three-fifths majority.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺 Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina says interest in the digital ruble “turned out to be much stronger” than expected, with “270,000 digital ruble accounts” opened since its September launch.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺 Russia could see its first licensed crypto market participants by year-end, the Bank of Russia says, bringing the industry inside the legal framework that took effect Sept. 1.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺 Russia's digital ruble has passed 220K accounts in its first month, nearly 4x the roughly 60K the central bank expected after the Sept. 1 launch, per Reuters.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺 Russia's Finance Ministry paid some employees' wages in digital rubles for the first time, with participation voluntary and payouts beginning Oct. 1.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia published its first registries of authorized crypto operators, listing 4 exchange operators and 5 custodians.

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LATEST: 🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia says "we do not want Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." "Iran must clarify its statements on this matter."

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LATEST: 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳 Russia says it has not ruled out 3-way meeting between President Trump, President Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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LATEST: 🇸🇪 Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers starting Oct. 26, leaving Microsoft Copilot as the only approved AI tool after a security review.

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LATEST: 🇸🇪 Sweden’s Riksbank is urging parliament to begin legislative preparations for a digital krona now, citing the digital euro’s planned 2029 launch and a minimum 5-year implementation timeline.

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LATEST: 🇸🇪 Sweden's tax agency ordered six crypto mining firms to pay back roughly $51M in taxes after finding they concealed mining activity to claim tax breaks they were not eligible for.

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LATEST: 🇸🇬 Gemini secured a Major Payment Institution license from Singapore's MAS, upgrading from in-principle status granted in October 2024.

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LATEST: 🇸🇬 Singapore's financial regulator proposed requiring stablecoin issuers to hold reserves equal to 100% of tokens in circulation.

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LATEST: 🇸🇬 Singapore's MAS has proposed a path for stablecoins jointly issued in Singapore and abroad to qualify under its framework, revisiting its 2023 Singapore-only approach.

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