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🇪🇺 LATEST: EU regulator ESMA warns growing ties between crypto and traditional finance could spread market shocks, flagging tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets.

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🇪🇺 LATEST: Nasdaq and European crypto groups urge EU lawmakers to remove the €100B cap on tokenized securities platforms.

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🇪🇺 NEW: Banks now make up nearly 23% of crypto providers on the EU’s MiCA register after doubling their presence to about 80 since late June.

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🇪🇺 NEW: OpenAI will begin watermarking eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU over the coming weeks to comply with the EU AI Act.

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🇪🇺 NEW: The ECB seeks online and mobile merchants for a 12-month digital euro pilot starting in the second half of 2027. Applications close Oct. 27.

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🇪🇺 NOW: The euro slides to a 16-month low near $1.13 as bets on further Fed rate hikes strengthen the US dollar.

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🇪🇺 NOW: Treasury Secretary Bessent says the EU has joined "Operation Economic Outcast," cutting off Iran's access to global finance to choke its nuclear program, weapons, and terror funding.

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🇪🇺 OPINION: Europe's crypto rules should protect customers without pricing smaller firms out of the market, argues @sygnumofficial's Simon Schneider. As the MiCA review consultation closes today, he sets out what needs to change. Read the full piece

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🇪🇺 TODAY: The ECB will launch Pontes, a digital euro platform open only to banks, kicking off the pilot phase ahead of a planned mid-2027 test.

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🇪🇺 UPDATE: Binance declined to comment on the reported ECB intervention in its Greek MiCA bid, @CoinDansLeCoin reports. Read more

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🇫🇷 INTERESTING: American homebuyers are outspending locals in Paris, with an average budget of $950,000.

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🇫🇷 INTERESTING: More Americans are permanently moving to Paris for better work-life balance, lower living costs and an escape from US politics.

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🇫🇷BIG: France calls for a G7 summit on releasing more oil reserves.

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🇬🇧 BIG: UK banks including Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC have completed the world's first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits.

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🇬🇧 Former U.K. member of parliament @GeorgeGalloway has bank account closed without explanation after 39 years as a customer with the same bank. If they can do it to him they will do it to you. Bitcoin

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🇬🇧 HUGE: Reform UK just received another £36M crypto-backed donation, bringing its total from billionaire backers to £72M in two days.

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🇬🇧 JUST IN: The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75%

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🇬🇧 JUST IN: The London Stock Exchange and Kraken owner Payward plan to launch tokenized UK stocks in 2027, per FT.

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🇬🇧 LATEST: King Charles to host an exclusive AI gathering in Scotland this month with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis among the guests, per Politico.

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🇬🇧 LATEST: UK's FCA is weighing lifting its 2019 ban on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi for retail investors, per The Times.

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🇬🇧 LATEST: UK’s FCA opens applications for crypto firms to become fully regulated, with the new regime taking effect on October 25, 2027.

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🇬🇧 NEW: The UK FCA releases crypto regulatory guidance covering stablecoin issuance, trading, custody and staking.

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🇬🇧 NOW: UK inflation rose to 3.1% in August, up from 2.9% in July.

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🇬🇧 REGULATION: Britain is set to impose a trade ban on Israeli West Bank settlements, per The New York Times.

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