Digital Assets
and Blockchain

The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, December 2025

Cryptoassets: OFSI’s Sanctions Threat Assessment

UK FCA: Stablecoin payments a priority for 2026

UK FCA publishes discussion paper on expanding consumer access to investments

The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 comes into force

UK FCA: Regulating cryptoassets and stablecoins

HMRC publishes paper on domestic reporting of UK resident cryptoasset users under CARF

‘Significant step’ towards future of digital money: Bank of England publishes proposals for regulating sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins

Bank of England consults on regulatory regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins

Winds of Change: The digital assets dialogues, Episode 4 – Policy and digital money, with Will Paul of Block

UK FCA guidance for firms offering crypto exchange traded notes

Winds of Change: The Digital Assets Dialogues, Episode 3 – Digital transformation in institutional markets with Barnali Biswal of Hilbert Group

Bank of England publishes update on digital pound project

UK FCA: Full steam ahead with fund tokenisation

Bank of England report on innovation in AI, DLT and quantum computing

Winds of Change: The Digital Assets Dialogues, Episode 2 – US developments, with former US senator Krysten Sinema and Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director at GDF