USDC Earns EU’s First “Significant” Label as Tokenized Collateral Knocks on Clearing Houses
Today’s Focus
The EBA has named USDC the EU’s first “significant e-money token,” moving it under dual EBA supervision from November 12 as stablecoin regulation enters a tiered era. ESMA is consulting on tokenized collateral for clearing houses, with some EUR 510 billion of initial margin awaiting on-chain settlement; tokenized Treasuries have topped $15 billion as institutional settlement infrastructure shifts onchain.
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EBA names USDC the EU’s first “significant EMT” — Prudential supervision shifts from ACPR to the EBA on November 12, with Circle’s EU and US entities brought under cross-Atlantic EBA-NYDFS information exchange.
ESMA consults on tokenized collateral — Covering digital twins, onchain-native and hybrid models, with some EUR 510 billion of EU clearing house initial margin awaiting on-chain settlement; comments close January 15, 2027.
Ant Digital x HSBC complete AI-agent tokenized deposit payment test — Micropayments under $2 settle in real time via HSBC’s tokenized deposit service with live risk controls, settled on the Jovay testnet; not yet commercially live.
Robinhood explores actively-managed ETF stock tokens — Talks with T. Rowe Price remain in due diligence; Bybit teams with Mantle on mStocks, 1:1 asset-backed tokenized stocks with 24/7 two-way conversion.
Dutch central bank grants Qivalis an EMI license — The firm plans a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin backed 1:1 by 37 European banks, pending remaining requirements including a whitepaper.
BNY x Citadel settle tokenized Treasury tri-party repo — U.S. Treasuries settle in minutes on a private ledger and serve as overnight repo collateral, versus G-SIBs pledging $74 billion daily across some 65 custody sites in the legacy system.
Morgan Stanley eyes tokenized stocks on an ATS by Q1 2027 — Federated Hermes plans onchain fund shares early next year as traditional asset managers accelerate tokenized listings.
Standard Chartered to plug RLUSD into LMAX via collateral mirroring — Custodied RLUSD would back select products; DriveWealth plans to adopt RLUSD settlement in Europe first.
Multiliquid closes $8M seed round — Led by Polychain with Circle Ventures participating, the institutional liquidity layer offers 24/7 atomic swaps between tokenized assets and stablecoins, already wired to Wellington, VanEck and other funds.
Tokenized Treasuries top $15 billion — BlackRock’s BUIDL exceeds $2 billion and plugs into UniswapX as collateral; with the GENIUS Act barring stablecoin yield, institutions rotate toward yield-bearing tokenized assets.
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