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Luxembourg Greenlights Crypto in UCITS: What It Means for Europe’s Fund Industry

Feb 26, 2026

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12 min read

Luxembourg Greenlights Crypto in UCITS: What It Means for Europe’s Fund Industry

In early February, Luxembourg’s financial regulator, the CSSF, published a landmark update to its rules on crypto-assets for investment funds, allowing UCITS to allocate up to 10% of their portfolio to crypto.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Exclusive: France’s Largest Banks Prepare Tokenized Deposit System

Feb 19, 2026

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12 min read

Exclusive: France’s Largest Banks Prepare Tokenized Deposit System

Participants include BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, and BPCE Group.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Boerse Stuttgart Settles First Confidential Tokenized Security Transaction on Ethereum

Feb 12, 2026

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12 min read

Boerse Stuttgart Settles First Confidential Tokenized Security Transaction on Ethereum

Last week, Boerse Stuttgart Group announced that it had executed the first confidential, tokenized delivery-versus-payment (DvP) transactions on a public blockchain. The transactions were carried out via its DLT settlement platform Seturion, with transaction logic executed on Aztec, an Ethereum layer-2 privacy network.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Eurosystem Greenlights Tokenized Collateral for March 2026

Feb 5, 2026

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13 min read

Eurosystem Greenlights Tokenized Collateral for March 2026

Last week, the European Central Bank announced a decisive step toward integrating tokenized securities into the core of the Eurosystem. From 30 March 2026, the Eurosystem, comprising the ECB and the national central banks of the euro area, plans to accept DLT-based securities as eligible collateral for its credit operations.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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From Full-Stack to Modular: How Banks Are Building Their Crypto Retail Offering

Jan 29, 2026

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11 min read

From Full-Stack to Modular: How Banks Are Building Their Crypto Retail Offering

Over the past few months alone, several major European banks, including DZ Bank, KBC and Groupe BPCE, have either announced or launched retail crypto offerings. We spoke with market participants on how these services are built.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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SG-FORGE CEO After Swift Trial: “Stablecoins Are Ready. Tokenized Deposits Are Not”

Jan 22, 2026

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13 min read

SG-FORGE CEO After Swift Trial: “Stablecoins Are Ready. Tokenized Deposits Are Not”

Last week, Swift announced the successful completion of a delivery-versus-payment settlement trial for tokenized bonds. In our conversation, Stenger explained why this trial is significant for large-scale standardization and interoperability, and why SG-FORGE is betting on stablecoins rather than tokenized deposits.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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DTCC Announces Pilot on Canton Network Following SEC No Action Letter

Dec 18, 2025

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14 min read

DTCC Announces Pilot on Canton Network Following SEC No Action Letter

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) received a No Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The relief allows DTCC to run a three-year pilot of a blockchain-based post-trade layer, while keeping its core clearing, settlement, and risk-management infrastructure firmly offchain.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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EU Commission Proposes Major Overhaul of Pilot Regime in Move Toward DLT-Based Markets

Dec 11, 2025

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14 min read

EU Commission Proposes Major Overhaul of Pilot Regime in Move Toward DLT-Based Markets

Last week, the European Commission proposed a set of measures designed to lay the foundations for a future European capital market built on blockchain. At its core is a major overhaul of the Pilot Regime, the EU framework that lets financial institutions trade and settle tokenized securities under regulatory supervision.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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BNP Paribas Joins European Stablecoin Consortium Qivalis

Dec 4, 2025

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13 min read

BNP Paribas Joins European Stablecoin Consortium Qivalis

On Tuesday, the euro stablecoin consortium held its first press conference, unveiling its name, Qivalis, and introducing its management team. The group, originally formed by nine banks including ING, UniCredit and DekaBank, also announced a major addition: BNP Paribas, Europe’s largest bank, will become its tenth member.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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Société Générale Enters U.S. Market With First Tokenized Bond Issuance

Nov 27, 2025

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14 min read

Société Générale Enters U.S. Market With First Tokenized Bond Issuance

Société Générale carried out its first issuance of a tokenized U.S. bond via its blockchain subsidiary SG-Forge. The move underscores the bank’s broader global push into asset tokenization, as well as its growing strategic focus on the U.S. market.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Exclusive: ECB Weighs Building Its Own Ledger For CBDC as Market Solutions Fall Short

Nov 20, 2025

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14 min read

Exclusive: ECB Weighs Building Its Own Ledger For CBDC as Market Solutions Fall Short

For several months, the ECB and the Eurosystem have been assessing which technological foundations could support a potential wholesale CBDC while preserving monetary sovereignty. According to internal notes reviewed by Blockstories, progress on market-led options has been limited, leading the ECB to increasingly examine the possibility of providing its own infrastructure rather than relying exclusively on private-sector solutions.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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BoE Proposes Stablecoin Framework with Holding Caps and Central Bank Access

Nov 13, 2025

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13 min read

BoE Proposes Stablecoin Framework with Holding Caps and Central Bank Access

On Monday, the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper outlining its proposed regulatory framework for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins. The document introduces two unprecedented features: a holding cap for users and the potential for issuers to access central bank liquidity.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Exclusive: ECB Set to Lose Battle Over Dual-Issuance Stablecoins

Nov 6, 2025

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15 min read

Exclusive: ECB Set to Lose Battle Over Dual-Issuance Stablecoins

According to people familiar with the matter, the European Central Bank is set to lose its campaign to ban the dual-issuance stablecoin model, after nearly a year of behind-the-scenes lobbying.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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IBM Debuts 'Digital Asset Haven' Platform With Dfns to Ease Institutional Access

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

IBM Debuts 'Digital Asset Haven' Platform With Dfns to Ease Institutional Access

On Monday, tech giant IBM announced the launch of Digital Asset Haven, a platform for institutions to custody, manage, and settle digital assets. Built with wallet-infrastructure provider Dfns, the platform runs on the same systems that already process most of the world’s payments and capital-markets operations.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Lise Secures EU DLT License to Open Capital Markets to SMEs

Oct 23, 2025

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14 min read

Lise Secures EU DLT License to Open Capital Markets to SMEs

French startup Lise has obtained authorization to operate a DLT-based market infrastructure under the EU’s Pilot Regime. Now it wants to open public capital markets to smaller companies.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Major Banks Join Forces to Explore Issuance of Digital Money

Oct 16, 2025

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14 min read

Major Banks Join Forces to Explore Issuance of Digital Money

On Friday, ten major banks, including Santander, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citi, announced they are joining forces to explore issuing a “1:1 reserve-backed form of digital money” on public blockchains, initially focused on G7 currencies.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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“Europe Needs a Unified Capital Markets DLT” — The Regulated Layer 1 (RL1) Aims to Deliver It

Oct 9, 2025

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14 min read

“Europe Needs a Unified Capital Markets DLT” — The Regulated Layer 1 (RL1) Aims to Deliver It

Last week, Frankfurt-based SWIAT announced the Regulated Layer 1 (RL1), a shared ledger for capital-markets activity that builds on the existing SWIAT network under a new cooperative governance model. The initiative unites ten European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank, DZ BANK, KfW, LBBW, Natixis CIB, and NatWest.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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Digital Assets Take Center Stage at Swift’s Sibos 2025

Oct 2, 2025

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14 min read

Digital Assets Take Center Stage at Swift’s Sibos 2025

Since Monday, Sibos, the largest global conference for payments and financial services, has been underway in Frankfurt. As Swift’s flagship event, it also served as the stage for several big announcements.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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Exclusive: Losing the Regulatory Race, France Pushes to Shift CASP Supervision to ESMA

Sep 18, 2025

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15 min read

Exclusive: Losing the Regulatory Race, France Pushes to Shift CASP Supervision to ESMA

On Monday, the French financial supervisor (AMF) published an op-ed co-authored with its Italian and Austrian counterparts calling for the supervision of MiCA-regulated CASPs to be transferred to ESMA, the EU’s financial regulator.

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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Boerse Stuttgart Group Unveils Seturion, a Pan-European DLT Platform for Financial Institutions

Sep 11, 2025

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14 min read

Boerse Stuttgart Group Unveils Seturion, a Pan-European DLT Platform for Financial Institutions

The platform builds on technology first deployed in Switzerland, where Boerse Stuttgart’s subsidiary BX Digital — a FINMA-regulated DLT trading venue — already uses Seturion as its settlement layer.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Acquires Aplo to Accelerate EU Expansion

Sep 4, 2025

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13 min read

Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Acquires Aplo to Accelerate EU Expansion

On Tuesday, Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest crypto exchanges, announced the acquisition of Aplo, a Paris-based digital asset prime brokerage. The deal gives Coincheck a direct presence in the European market while providing Aplo with deeper liquidity and stronger balance sheet capacity.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Exclusive: The State of Kinexys in 2025 — Scaling Clients, Expanding Networks

Aug 28, 2025

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13 min read

Exclusive: The State of Kinexys in 2025 — Scaling Clients, Expanding Networks

Blockchain acceleration: Over the past weeks, Kinexys — J.P. Morgan’s blockchain division — has been accelerating client adoption, adding names like FedEx, clearing house Marex, and payments provider Corpay, among others. Amid these recent developments, we sat down with Zack Chestnut, Head of Business Development at Kinexys.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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Banking Lobby Pushes Back as Stablecoin Yield Loopholes Spread Across U.S. and Europe

Aug 21, 2025

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13 min read

Banking Lobby Pushes Back as Stablecoin Yield Loopholes Spread Across U.S. and Europe

On August 12, several major U.S. banking groups — led by the powerful Bank Policy Institute (BPI) — urged Congress to “close the stablecoin payment of interest loophole.”

Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas, +1

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S&P Issues First-Ever Credit Rating for a DeFi Protocol

Aug 14, 2025

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13 min read

S&P Issues First-Ever Credit Rating for a DeFi Protocol

On August 7, S&P Global Ratings issued its first-ever credit rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, assigning Sky Protocol — formerly MakerDAO — a B-. The assessment used S&P’s global scale, placing Sky’s risk profile alongside that of traditional lenders worldwide rather than under a bespoke DeFi framework.

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1

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TradFi Veteran Joins Tokenization Platform Centrifuge as COO: “This Feels Like the Early ETF Days”

Aug 7, 2025

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13 min read

TradFi Veteran Joins Tokenization Platform Centrifuge as COO: “This Feels Like the Early ETF Days”

After two decades in ETFs at firms like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, Jürgen Blumberg has joined Centrifuge and Anemoy to help bring fund management onchain. In this interview, he explains why tokenized funds are starting with distribution, where today’s wrappers fall short, and how real transformation will come from rebuilding issuance, pricing, and liquidity at the protocol layer..

Louis Tellier
Maximilian Vargas
Louis Tellier, +1
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