Foreword: METI Advisory wrote this report for SEBA Bank AG. Abstract: Since 2018, several EU member states have developed and implemented more or less comprehensive regulations and regulatory frameworks for crypto-assets and cryptofinance, with the most prominent examples being France, Germany, and Malta. Since around the same time, the call for an EU-wide crypto-asset regulation has grown louder. The European Commission (EC) is now poised to issue the EU framework for markets in crypto-assets before the end of the year. It is unclear to what extent the crypto-asset regulation that the EU is about to finalise will interfere with the advanced frameworks set up by member states and whether it will require adaptations. On balance, however, an EU-wide crypto-asset regulation is the only way to harvest efficiently and in a risk-controlled way the benefits of crypto-assets and cryptofinance services and products in the context of the European single market.
Which crypto-asset regulation for the European Union? (September 2020)
Mattia Rattaggi