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Greece's new 10% crypto gains tax and 15% DeFi income tax from 2027 create a split-rate bookkeeping problem that finance teams must prepare for now.
New Jersey rescinded its Coinbase staking order without prejudice, so firms need accounting that handles resumed staking, state-by-state restrictions and lingering legal risk.
A practitioner-focused breakdown of the major crypto AML, licensing, and regulatory shifts surfaced at TRM Labs' Q3 2026 policy roundtable, covering the US, EU, UK, Singapore, and Asia-Pacific.
Japan's Financial Services Agency opens formal policy deliberations on DeFi and digital finance regulation, drawing in Nomura Holdings and Securitize Japan as first industry witnesses.
The Cardano Foundation's formal submission to the European Commission argues that extending MiCA-style rules to DeFi and self-custody staking would create regulatory overlap and legal uncertainty across the EU, with direct implications for how accounting and compliance teams classify and report these activities.
Two major industry players file SEC comment letters demanding clearer token classification, airdrop, and secondary-market rules as the public comment window closes on Regulation Crypto Assets.
Legal analysis of whether the SEC and CFTC's current pro-crypto rules can survive court challenge or a future administration reversal, with accounting and audit implications for US-facing firms.
The Eurosystem's Pontes initiative, cross-border central bank pilots, and the Qivalis bank consortium are turning tokenised wholesale finance into operational infrastructure, creating urgent DeFi accounting, audit, and disclosure obligations for EU firms.
Breaking regulatory news: ASIC's CP 392 sets out proposed standards, guidance, and licensing pathways for digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms under the new DAF Act framework commencing April 2027.
Morgan Stanley delays its tokenized-equity ATS launch from H2 2026 to Q1 2027, with direct implications for institutional digital asset accounting infrastructure and the broader RWA market trajectory.
Breaking: Securitize's 1:1-backed Convertible Entitlement Tokens on Solana create new accounting, tax, and compliance obligations for firms and individual holders alike.
The SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized equities imposes volume caps that already constrain Robinhood's offshore stock-token business, creating immediate accounting and classification questions for US firms and CFOs tracking tokenized securities.
Breaking: FCA begins accepting crypto firm authorization applications, with a hard deadline of 28 February 2027 and no automatic carry-over from MLR registration.
FASB's August 2026 tentative decisions on crypto lending, wrapped tokens, and LP tokens challenge the assumption that an on-chain transfer equals an accounting derecognition under US GAAP.
The SEC's non-binding staff FAQ on token buybacks, staking receipts, and network services lands in the wake of the CLARITY Act's failure, reshaping the classification analysis for digital assets on US financial statements.
Peirce's departure leaves a specific slate of incomplete crypto regulatory work — developer protections, custody rules, transfer agent finalisation, and the innovation exemption pathway — that accounting and compliance teams need to track closely.
VARA's sweeping Dubai digital asset rulebooks, including a privacy coin ban and FATF-aligned AML rules, set a new compliance baseline that every VASP and its advisers must map against now.
The House Ways and Means Committee's 38-5 approval of the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act signals real legislative momentum on US crypto tax reform, even as the broader Clarity Act stalls in the Senate — with direct implications for how firms treat staking income and voluntary disclosure obligations.
Congress's September 2026 digital asset tax activity, including the Ways and Means bill, Senate cloture failure, and CFTC rulemaking submission, mapped to concrete DeFi accounting and compliance obligations for US accounting firms and CFOs.
Breaking: House committee clears sweeping crypto tax bill covering stablecoins, staking, DeFi lending, and a $10 de minimis fee exemption, with direct accounting and reporting implications for US firms and individual filers.
Matter Labs open-sources Prividium's permissioning engine with Bundesbank as first adopter, reshaping permissioned DLT auditability and vendor-risk for regulated finance teams.
Industry coalition asks SEC to speed ETF approvals and add a confidential draft filing track, with staking receipt tokens also on the table for spot crypto ETPs.
Chainalysis data reveals CARF's 86% onchain blind spot, with concrete implications for accounting firms and CFOs managing digital asset tax compliance.
VARA's revised Custody Services Rulebook now lets licensed custodians add staking under a single entity, reshaping compliance and accounting obligations for Dubai-based VASPs and their advisers.
Fidelity's staking ETF filing forces US accounting firms and CFOs to confront unresolved FASB ASC 350-60 and IFRS treatment of staking rewards inside a registered fund wrapper
PARITY Act draft provisions: wash sales, mark-to-market, and staking deferral and the accounting and tax planning steps firms need now
Practical accounting and tax implications for US accounting firms and CFOs of the seven proposed digital asset tax bills summarised by Forvis Mazars
BDO's global crypto enforcement and compliance outlook: what accounting firms and CFOs must act on now
SEC Commissioner Peirce signals crypto vaults and onchain lending may be securities: accounting, audit, and compliance action points for US firms and CFOs
EU Parliament's post-MiCA policy position on DeFi, staking, NFTs and stablecoins and its accounting and compliance implications for EU firms and CFOs
The European Commission's MiCA review consultation opens every major pillar of the framework to potential amendment, creating near-term uncertainty and compliance planning obligations for accounting firms, auditors, and CFOs with EU digital asset exposure.
Dubai's VARA has published one of the most detailed crypto regulatory frameworks globally, with direct implications for VASP licensing, AML/CFT obligations, and asset segregation, plus a firm prohibition on privacy coins that accounting firms and compliance teams must absorb immediately.
EU DAC6/DAC7/DAC8 regulatory shifts, IAS 12 GloBE amendments, and member-state implementations create concrete compliance obligations for accounting firms and CFOs advising EU-facing clients
The SEC's 60-day public comment period on novel ETF structures signals potential registration and compliance rule changes that accounting firms and fund auditors must monitor closely.
EU lawmakers have called for a formal regulatory assessment covering DeFi, staking, and NFTs, signalling that MiCA is not the end of the EU crypto rulemaking cycle and that compliance and reporting frameworks for these asset areas remain unfinished.
A practical accounting guide for firms and finance teams explaining how to classify, measure, and automate staking reward recognition using crypto accounting software.
