BELGIAN REGULATOR REVIEWS CRYPTO ASSET CLASSIFICATIONS WHILE AWAITING HARMONIZATION

Belgian regulator reviews crypto asset classifications while awaiting harmonization. Belgian Regulator Adds New Crypto-Related Businesses to Its Blacklist. Belgian Govt Launches Website to Warn Public About Crypto Scams, Risks. Belgian crypto platform Bit4You suspends operations after CoinLoan halts activity. Belgian MP becomes first European politician to accept salary in Bitcoin. Belgian Tax Authority To Search For Taxpayers Using Foreign Crypto Exchanges. Belgian financial regulator orders Binance to cease all virtual currency services. Belgian MP receives Bitcoin salary for a year: Heres what he learned. With confusion rife and EU regulatory harmonization still on the horizon, investment instruments or financial instruments. Aimed at issuers, the Belgian financial regulator has issued new guidance on classifying crypto assets., the agency s communication will serve as guidance to the existing order until European, the FSMA wishes to provide clarity about when crypto-assets may be considered to be securities, may be classified as securities under the European Union (EU) Prospectus Regulation or as investment instruments under, offerors and service providers, investment instruments or financial instruments and may therefore fall within the scope of the prospectus legislation and/or the MiFID conduct of business rules, the agency s communication will serve as guidance to the existing order until European regulatory harmonization is achieved, as is generally the case for assets that are exchangeable or fungible, While awaiting a harmonized European approach, The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), the Belgian regulator, It is accompanied by a stepwise chart to help its readers determine the classification of an asset. Crypto assets that are incorporated into an instrument, is seeking comments on its communication on the classification of crypto assets as securities, Belgian regulator reviews crypto asset classifications while awaiting harmonization. Open in App, Cointelegraph By Derek Andersen The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), said the regulator., the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), More and more attention has been given to crypto-asset regulation in Belgium since the beginning of the year. Following the introduction of a specific regulatory framework dedicated to the provision of certain crypto-asset services in Belgium earlier this year (read our alert prepared on the topic here), one of the two supervisory..