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The rise of stablecoins – regulatory landscape in the EU

Close up of a physical Bitcoin coin surrounded by many EURO coins. Symbol for growing influence of digital currencies and blockchain technology and investment.
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The first of a two-part series analyses the EU and UK crypto regulatory landscapes, focusing on the EU regulatory framework for stablecoins.

In recent years, the world of digital assets has evolved significantly. From the outskirts of the financial services ecosystem, digital assets and the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) have managed to move closer to the centre of the financial services industry and become a topic that hardly any serious player