The promise of the fintech sector as an engine of economic growth has drawn increasing attention from the Australian Government. In December 2025, Treasury released a consultation paper in connection with its independent review of the enhanced regulatory sandbox ( ERS ) . The Government is seeking views on: the extent to which Australia's regulatory, policy and economic settings foster financial innovation; the effectiveness of the current ERS design and regulatory settings;

Traditional finance’s push to integrate digital assets has taken another meaningful step forward. Over the past month, several major products and pilot programs slated for 2026 have been announced, signalling that digital asset exposure is rapidly becoming a standard feature of wealth management and capital markets operations. One notable example is Morgan Stanley’s plan to roll out a proprietary digital wallet in the second half of 2026. The wallet is touted to support both

In a recent speech, the Securities and Exchanges Commission ( SEC ) Chairman, Paul Atkins, tackled one of the most vexed issues in relation to cryptocurrency, the application of the US securities laws. The speech shed more light on ‘Project Crypto’, the commission's flagship initiative to drive America’s digital finance revolution. The SEC Chairman announced earlier this year plans to facilitate US financial markets to move on-chain and renewed his call to embrace market inn

Uniswap, one of the largest decentralised exchanges has announced a proposal to activate its long-debated fee switch . The proposal would see the protocol begin collecting fees and introduce a programmatic mechanism that enable users paid to burn UNI governance tokens . How will the fee switch work? The fee switch is a mechanism built into Uniswap’s protocol that allows governance to redirect a share of trading fees from liquidity providers to UNI token holders. Until now, t

The UK Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) has released a huge consultation paper CP25/28 titled 'Progressing Fund Tokenisation' which outlines new rules for fund tokenisation and direct-to-fund dealing. The paper expands on the 2023 Blueprint published by the Investment Association's Technology Working Group, which introduced a phased roadmap for fund tokenisation. The FCA has clearly put a huge amount of work into this document, which defines tokenisation as a method of re