Deutsche Bank says its first crypto custody service is weeks from launch in Germany, starting with Bitcoin and Ether. The bank's product page lists five tokens, so the gap between a supported asset and a usable service is what clients will meet first.
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German regulators handed banks about 41 of Europe's 72 MiCA approvals in the third quarter
German regulators issued 42 of the 72 MiCA authorizations granted across Europe in the third quarter, according to FinPlanet. All but one went to banks, yet the 65 banks in FinPlanet's count are under a fifth of the 363 licensed entities.
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- Evidence42
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- Hype gap+8
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ESMA opened a call for evidence on October 9 asking whether EU clearing houses can turn tokenized collateral into cash when a member defaults. Responses close January 15, 2027, Crypto Briefing reported, and ESMA has one live clearing-house service to test the question against.
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- Hype gap+10
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BaFin refused futurum bank a MiCA licence 466 days after it applied, prolonging a bitcoin.de trading halt that began on June 12. Owner Bitcoin Group SE now plans to restart through regulated German partners, handing trading and custody to outside firms.
Perspective Coverage
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ESMA and regulators in France, Germany and Greece are examining how Binance still serves EU users without the MiCA license it needed by July 1. The inquiry tests whether a narrow exemption can hold an exchange's European business while it waits for authorization.
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Germany's Operation Herakles has cut off 13,888 phone numbers used in investment fraud
German authorities led by Karlsruhe's Cybercrime Centre have cut off 13,888 phone numbers used in investment fraud, 9,304 of them in the last three months. They say the shutdowns now run as a standing process that combines criminal, police and telecom-regulatory powers.
Publishers:bundesnetzagentur.de
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- Evidence45
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- Confidence50
AllUnity, co-founded by Deutsche Bank's DWS, launched USDAU, a MiCA-regulated US dollar stablecoin, on six blockchains. Dollar tokens already hold more than 99% of a $291 billion stablecoin market, the segment AllUnity enters from a base of small euro and Swiss franc coins.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+20
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Germany's deposit scheme covers at most 1.1 million euros of Bank Sepah's Frankfurt failure
BaFin declared the Frankfurt branch of Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah insolvent on September 10 after it could no longer repay depositors. The branch had 11 of them and roughly 50 million euros of assets.
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- Evidence35
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SpaceX prices $75bn of stock at $135 and leaves the denominator in the prospectus
555,555,555 Class A shares at $135.00 works out to $74,999,999,925. The pricing release names 23 banks and no share count, so the market-cap argument moves to the prospectus.
Publishers:ir.spacex.com
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- Evidence72
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives78
- Confidence63
A value manager says the market broke its own math. His build log is the better evidence
Emeth Value Capital's H1 2026 letter describes memory makers out-earning their 18-month-old market caps and compounders derated pre-emptively. Then it shows how the derating happens.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+32
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- Confidence38