News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Alpaca's $435M capital raise signals tokenized equity infrastructure scaling fast, creating new accounting, custodial, and conflict-of-interest questions for firms and CFOs.
ECB selects 36 PSPs for 2027 digital euro pilot: accounting and infrastructure implications for EU firms and CFOs
Regulatory sandboxes for DLT in financial market infrastructure are moving from concept to live pilots across the EU, UK, Switzerland and Australia, with concrete compliance, accounting, and operational implications for firms and CFOs.
Standard Chartered becomes the first global bank to offer institutions direct USDC access, raising immediate questions around stablecoin accounting treatment, custody classification, and audit trail requirements.
The OUSD consortium model redistributes stablecoin reserve yield across 140+ partners, threatening Circle's USDC revenue base and forcing accounting firms to reassess stablecoin reserve economics in client portfolios.
ESMA's Tier 1 recognition of India's CCIL under EMIR expands EU clearing access and signals deepening regulatory equivalence between the EU and India, with immediate implications for EU clearing members and their compliance and reporting obligations.
Sanctions, accounting treatment, and cross-border compliance implications of the Russian digital ruble's confirmed September 2026 launch, contrasted with the EU sanctions posture and the near-certain US digital dollar ban
Two underreported developments show how tokenized deposits and stablecoins are converging into a practical interoperability layer, with direct implications for corporate treasury, bank liquidity, and compliance infrastructure.
The OECD Digital Government Outlook 2026 provides a framework for understanding how governments are digitizing, which indirectly affects crypto accounting software adoption for compliance.
