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The Financial Conduct Authority has launched a sweeping public consultation on crypto rules that will require all firms serving UK consumers to obtain regulatory authorisation by October 2027, with significant consequences for cross-border platforms serving African and South Asian corridors.

Islamabad, April 15, 2026.

A commentary published in The Daily Star on April 15, 2026 argues that permissioned blockchain and artificial intelligence surveillance are the most viable tools available for reversing decades of fraud-driven damage to Bangladesh's capital market.

Pakistan's central bank formally activated the banking integration layer of the country's new virtual asset law on April 14, 2026, allowing licensed crypto firms to open segregated accounts at regulated banks for the first time in the country's history.

World Liberty Financial quietly added a blacklist mechanism to its token contract one week before public trading began. Now its biggest backer is calling it a backdoor.

A U.S. district court has blocked Arizona from prosecuting federally regulated prediction market Kalshi, handing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a significant early win in its nationwide campaign to assert exclusive oversight of event contract platforms.