The volatile performance of cryptocurrencies has made significant headlines over the past year. This is hardly surprising given that bitcoin, easily the best-known crypto, has fallen by 70% in value since reaching its peak last November.

Private sector debt ratcheted up during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now regulators want to figure out how this will hit countries facing a post-pandemic recession – and what policy-makers can do to ease the pain.

Amid fears that a wave of greenwashing scandals could break, global regulators have launched a multi-layered strategy to combat mis-selling, spearheaded by dramatic enforcement actions that may yet target individuals.

Traders in secondary markets argue they are getting short-changed on data – and global standard setter IOSCO agrees and is urging securities regulators to tackle the problem.

Smaller financial firms could be frozen-out of parts of the over-the-counter derivatives market if they do not quickly implement the systems required under uncleared margin rules.

US equities markets face the biggest shake-up in decades if SEC chair Gary Gensler gets his way, but it will be a journey strewn with legal obstacles that could ultimately sink the whole project.

Crypto-assets, their issuers and crypto-asset service providers (CASP) have been pulled into an EU-wide regulatory framework for the first time following a provisional agreement between the European Council and the European Parliament announced on June 30.