Executive Summary Sentiment: Mixed (Bearish on margin compression / Bullish on institutional integration). Enforcement Reality: The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s immediate revocation of a major licence signals a zero-tolerance environment for weak third-party risk controls and disclosure failures, posing an existential threat to under-resourced compliance functions. Structural Cost Increases: Immediate UK mandates for stablecoin segregation and a new EU consultation targe

Bullish (US Market Structure): The Senate Banking Committee’s advancement of the CLARITY Act signals a major step toward statutory certainty. Prioritising everyday market participants, the legislation brings digital assets into the US regulatory framework. While this imposes new compliance burdens, the statutory mandates for timely disclosures, educational infrastructure, and anti-fraud protections establish clear rules of the road that will build long-term retail and market

UK Stablecoins (Bullish for UKQS, Bearish for Offshore): HM Treasury’s proposed carve-outs for UK-issued stablecoins (UKQS) offer a much faster route to market for payment processors. However, hybrid platforms that mix payments with lending will face structural complexities in avoiding regulatory breaches, and, crucially, platforms relying on overseas-issued stablecoins will face significant cross-border operational friction. Singapore Institutional Adoption (Bullish): MAS is

Executive Summary The regulatory landscape for the week ending 16 January 2026 is defined by a sharp strategic divergence: Operational hardening in the West versus aggressive market restructuring in the East . Europe & UK: Regulators have closed the door on jurisdictional arbitrage for infrastructure. The UK-EU DORA pact creates a unified supervisory front, while the G7’s Post-Quantum roadmap introduces a new, existential technology risk for CASP custodians. APAC & Middle E