Authorization Compliance Legal Framework 
The Payments Association
JANUARY 13, 2025
The impact of the UK Digital Assets Bill on PSPs, highlighting legal uncertainties, operational challenges, and strategic opportunities. It addresses how evolving regulations shape the digital asset landscape, influencing innovation, compliance, and global competitiveness. Why is it important? What’s next?
The Payments Association
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
It highlights new corporate responsibilities, significant penalties for non-compliance, and the businesses need to implement strong fraud prevention measures to protect their financial and reputational standing. Compliance requires proactive fraud risk assessment, the implementation of preventive procedures, and a culture of accountability.
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The Payments Association
DECEMBER 2, 2024
For instance, some platforms delisted certain stablecoins that did not comply with the new regulations, ensuring adherence to the EU’s legal framework. The Duty, which was introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), was brought in to enhance consumer protection within financial services.
Finextra
JULY 16, 2025
As global finance becomes increasingly digitized, the infrastructure supporting cross-border financial services — payments, settlements, identification, compliance — has been largely constructed with the explicit aim of exclusion, rather than inclusion. Traditionally, compliance has been viewed as a restrictive force, a barrier to innovation.
The Payments Association
JUNE 16, 2025
Going forward, responsibility for tackling fraud should be shared through a proactive, whole-of-ecosystem prevention strategy, including a mandatory shared responsibility framework among government, financial institutions, telcos, and tech platforms, as well as enhanced collaboration with overseas authorities.
Finextra
AUGUST 12, 2025
From December 30, 2024, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) came into force in Europe, and introduces a unified legal framework for crypto-assets, including asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and e-money tokens (EMTs) - both of which cover stablecoins. They have not publicly disclosed detailed compliance plans on delisting USDT.
The Payments Association
JULY 18, 2025
Across the EU, operational resilience, real-time payments, and the steady rollout of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) are redefining compliance baselines for digital finance. Globally, preparations for central bank digital currencies and evolving open finance frameworks signal longer-term structural change.
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