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EU finance ministers strike preliminary deal to centralize markets oversight under ESMA

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EU finance ministers reached a preliminary agreement to move more market oversight under ESMA. The backing also sets up talks with Parliament on a plan that would give the EU securities regulator direct oversight of the bloc’s largest cross-border crypto-asset service providers.

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EU finance ministers struck a preliminary deal to centralize more financial markets oversight under ESMA.
EU finance ministers strike preliminary deal to centralize markets oversight…
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The EU Council backed ESMA’s negotiating position on crypto oversight.
EU Council Backs ESMA Negotiating Position on Crypto Oversight
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The position would give ESMA direct oversight of the bloc’s most significant cross-border crypto-asset service providers.
EU Council Backs ESMA Negotiating Position on Crypto Oversight

What it means

Crypto-asset service providers that operate across EU borders would notice the most immediate effect, because ESMA would be positioned to oversee the biggest of them directly. That changes who sits at the center of supervision, while the day-to-day requirement for final rules to be agreed is still not in place yet.

Before this step, markets oversight was not centralized in this way under ESMA. What changes in practice is the direction of supervision toward a single EU-level regulator for the largest cross-border crypto firms, while the need for talks with Parliament still keeps the existing rulemaking process open.

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Total crypto marketall crypto assets combined no single asset in the event: read against the whole market
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$2.8Tmarket cap at publication
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