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The United Kingdom has brought crypto assets under full oversight of the Financial Conduct Authority for the first time, marking a significant step in the country's approach to regulating digital assets. The move places crypto firms within the FCA's regulatory perimeter, with industry watchers weighing what stricter compliance and consumer protection rules will mean for crypto businesses operating in Britain.
- 2Bitcoin think tank challenges MSCI over crypto treasury rule●Bitcoin think tank questions MSCI’s ‘invisible committee’ over Strategy, Metaplanet rule
A Bitcoin-focused think tank is pressing MSCI over its proposed rule to exclude companies such as Strategy and Metaplanet from key indexes, criticising what it calls an 'invisible committee' making decisions behind closed doors. The dispute centres on whether firms holding large Bitcoin treasuries should still be classified as technology companies. Index exclusion could force passive funds to sell their shares.