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The European Commission is the EU's executive body and the author of MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation), the bloc's crypto-asset and stablecoin framework. On 20 May 2026 the Commission opened a formal MiCA review through two consultations, a general-public consultation and a more technical targeted consultation, with responses due 30 August 2026. The review's stablecoin sections carry the most weight for tokenisation readers: it targets multi-issuance global stablecoins (where reserves for EU holders could be drained during a crisis by redemptions from holders in other jurisdictions), asks whether MiCA's blanket ban on stablecoin interest should be amended in light of the US debate on stablecoin rewards, and asks whether banks should be required to issue stablecoins through a separately capitalised subsidiary, as the UK and US do, rather than MiCA's current allowance for banks to offer stablecoins without reserve segregation. For a tokenisation operator, the Commission is the body that sets the EU-wide stablecoin perimeter that the ECB, national regulators, and bank-affiliated issuers such as SG-FORGE all operate inside.

Role in tokenisation

  • Author and steward of MiCA, the EU's crypto-asset and stablecoin regulation.
  • Opened a formal MiCA review on 20 May 2026, targeting multi-issuance global stablecoins, the blanket interest ban, and bank stablecoin-subsidiary structuring.

Recent activity

  • 20 May 2026. Opened a formal MiCA review via two consultations (responses due 30 August 2026), targeting multi-issuance global stablecoins, the blanket interest ban, and whether banks should issue stablecoins through separate subsidiaries (Ledger Insights).

Open questions

  • Whether the MiCA review results in binding amendments before the next European Parliament term, or stays at the consultation stage through 2026.
  • Whether the review's separate-subsidiary question converges with the UK and US bank-stablecoin-subsidiary models, and what that implies for existing bank-affiliated EMT issuers such as SG-FORGE that have already voluntarily separated.

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