United Kingdom News

Round Three: Robinhood Sets Sights on UK Market with 24H Trading and 6,000 US Stocks
Signaling resilience and adaptability, Robinhood, the renowned online investments app, announced its plan to launch in the UK in early 2024....

Tokenisation Accelerates: A Look at the Latest Developments
Green Light for Tokenised Funds in UK British investment managers have received approval to develop tokenised funds, which use blockchain te...

Coinbase CEO: We Asked the SEC for Feedback, All We Got Was a Lawsuit
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is under fire from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, despite the company’s...

FTX Fallout Leaves Crypto Exchanges in UK and Canada at a Crossroads
The collapse of FTX and the conviction of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has left the crypto industry with questions about how it will survive...

UK Regulators Fire Off 146 Crypto Violation Alerts on First Day of New Promotion Rules
In a bid to regulate crypto, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued 146 alerts identifying malpractice on the first day of new ...

Australia To UK And Africa: XRP Flies as Ripple Creates Global Standard for Cross-Border Payments
Breaking Down International Barriers to Trade On the first day of the Ripple Swell conference in Dubai, Ripple announced it has teamed up wi...

Will Stringent Regulations Make Stablecoins New Mode of Payment in UK?
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (Bank) have opened feedback for two papers discussing stablecoin regulation...

PayPal Receives Greenlight To Conduct ‘Certain Crypto Asset Activities’ in the United Kingdom
Global payments giant PayPal just secured a license from financial regulators in the United Kingdom to operate as a crypto asset business. A...

PayPal Receives FCA Approval to Offer Limited Crypto Services in the UK
United Kingdom (UK) authorities have granted approval to the payment giant PayPal to commence offering cryptocurrency services within the na...

UK to Regulate Crypto in Bid to Become Global Hub for Digital Assets
The UK Government has confirmed its intention to make the country a ‘global hub’ for crypto by pushing ahead with plans to regulate digi...

UK Finance Ministry To Go Ahead With Sweeping Crypto Regulations: Report
Financial regulators in the United Kingdom are reportedly planning to legislate new regulations for the crypto industry in the country. Acco...

UK publishes plans for stablecoins regulation
The United Kingdom government has published an update to its plans to regulate fiat-backed stablecoins. The document, published on Oct. 30, ...