Regulation moves: grey lists change, regimes go live, transition windows close. This page tracks those events across crypto licensing and company formation, from FATF list decisions to licence deadlines, each dated, tied to its primary source, and linked to the guides it affects.
Below the calendar sits the verification ledger: when every crypto licensing and company formation guide was last confirmed against its sources. Building a shortlist instead? Compare crypto licensing jurisdictions or company-formation jurisdictions.
Each dated and tied to its primary source
Across crypto licensing and company formation
Checked against primary sources in the last three months
Data as of September 2026
Every event below is dated, tied to its primary source, and linked to the jurisdiction guides it affects. Scheduled events carry the regulator's own date. Watch items track developments a regulator has signalled but not scheduled; the date shown is the checkpoint by which we expect movement and re-verify regardless.
Belize licenses digital-asset firms today under a transitional instrument, and every licence issued under it must convert to a permanent one by the end of 2027. The draft Bill is the first public sight of what those permanent terms will be, so capital floors, licence categories and fees can all still move before it is enacted.
The new Ley Especial (Decreto Legislativo 426, in force since October 2025) makes cash, wire and digital-asset transactions reportable to the UIF within five working days, but it does not set the thresholds: article 25 delegates them to the law's reglamento, and article 60 required that within 90 days. Until it is published the year-2000 reglamento and instructivo stay in force, so a registered provider is reporting against the old numbers while the statute above them has changed.
Poland's Crypto-Asset Market Act has been vetoed three times, most recently in June 2026, so the KNF is not yet accepting national CASP applications. EU CASPs continue to serve the Polish market by passporting under MiCA. Enactment would restart the domestic authorisation track.
Romania's MiCA implementing ordinance reached first reading in Government on 2 April 2026 but has not been published in Monitorul Oficial, so ASF cannot accept CASP applications and has published no fee tariff. The MiCA transitional period ended on 1 July 2026, so no national route is open. EU CASPs continue to serve the Romanian market by passporting.
Antigua and Barbuda came off the EU's Annex II grey list on 17 February 2026 and now sits on neither annex. The October 2026 review, alongside any OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework commitment, determines whether that clean standing holds into 2027.
Bulgaria's exit from the FATF grey list is expected to be considered at the October 2026 plenary. Removal would ease bank de-risking pressure and improve counterparty standing for Bulgarian-licensed operators.
The FATF reviews its increased-monitoring (grey) and high-risk (black) lists at each plenary. A listing change moves banking access, counterparty due diligence and licensing perception overnight for the jurisdictions concerned. Bulgaria's possible grey-list exit is the headline item for this round.
The next CFATF follow-up report may re-rate St Kitts and Nevis on Recommendation 15 and confirm commencement of the 2024 virtual-asset amendments, both of which feed the jurisdiction's compliance standing.
Affects:
Source: CFATF
Dominica's virtual-asset register currently lists no registered businesses, and application guidance has not been published. A first named registrant would be the practical proof that the regime is operational.
Not yet published by the regulator
The Central Bank of Ireland's 2025 industry-funding regulations carried no CASP category. The 2026 regulations are expected to publish the first CASP supervisory levy, completing the true year-one cost picture for Irish authorisation.
Not yet published by the regulator
Macau has no virtual-asset licensing regime today. The pending AML legislation is expected to create an operator licensing requirement under a named regulator; until it passes, Macau remains a monitoring position rather than a licensing option.
Not yet published by the regulator
Kazakhstan is among the jurisdictions committed to first automatic exchanges of crypto-asset account information in 2027 under the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework. For an AIFC-licensed provider that means client tax residencies, balances and transaction totals become reportable, so onboarding and record-keeping have to be CARF-shaped before the first reporting period rather than after it. The implementing rules from the Ministry of Finance and AFSA are what fix the start date.
Oman's FSA currently operates an interim registration regime. The full VARF is expected to publish licence categories, government fees and capital tiers, turning Oman from an early-mover position into a fully costed, comparable licensing option.
Not yet published by the regulator
Standing checkpoint for changes to the FATF grey and black lists. Listings shape bank de-risking behaviour and counterparty risk reviews for the jurisdictions concerned.
Saint Vincent stays in enhanced follow-up after the May 2026 report, so a further follow-up can re-rate Recommendation 15, the virtual-asset standard, again. A re-rating shifts how banks and counterparties read the jurisdiction's AML standing. CFATF has not published a date; we watch from one year on from the last report.
Standing checkpoint for changes to the FATF grey and black lists. Listings shape bank de-risking behaviour and counterparty risk reviews for the jurisdictions concerned.
Standing checkpoint for changes to the FATF grey and black lists. Listings shape bank de-risking behaviour and counterparty risk reviews for the jurisdictions concerned.
Belize's SI 162/2025 transitional regime ends on 31 December 2027, when registrants must convert to full Part VI licences. The FSC has yet to publish the permanent licence terms that will fix the regime's long-run costs and conditions.
Not yet published by the regulator
Wondering what one of these changes means for your plans? Ask Emma. She knows this calendar and every guide behind it, in your language.
When a watched event lands, its outcome is recorded here, including the quiet ones: a fact re-verified with no change is still a verification. Outcomes are recorded only from primary sources, never from news coverage alone. Below the outcomes sits the running re-verification log: the key figures confirmed against their sources over the last three months.
The clarification we were watching for had already arrived. The Finance Act 2025 (Act No. 18 of 2025) received presidential assent and was gazetted on 9 August 2025, and it extends the 80% partial exemption to income a licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider derives from the activities its licence covers, for years of assessment commencing on or after 1 July 2026. The exemption is conditional on prescribed substance requirements: a physical presence in Mauritius, core income-generating activity carried out in or from Mauritius, local management, and local staff. The effective rate on qualifying licensed-activity income is 3%, or 3.4% where the 2% Corporate Climate Responsibility levy applies. Income outside the licensed activity stays at the 15% headline rate. No FSC circular was needed; the statute did it.
Confirmed against the primary the same week it took effect. Government Resolution No. 638 of 18 July 2026 (adilet.zan.kz, read directly) approves the Rules for strategic digital mining, in force 1 August 2026: a voluntary scheme granting large mainland miners an electricity quota at regulated ceiling tariffs in exchange for transferring a share of mined assets, via the Astana Hub fund, toward the National Strategic Crypto Reserve. Entry requires an owned 150 MW+ mining data centre with 35 kV+ grid connection and 150 TH/s+ units; applications run through elicense.kz. The baseline mainland mining framework and the AIFC DASP perimeter are unchanged, so our Kazakhstan guidance holds as written; the page's mainland-mining section now cites the resolution.
The report arrived earlier than the November window we were watching. CFATF adopted its second Enhanced Follow-Up Report on 11 May 2026, re-rating four of the forty Recommendations. Recommendation 15, the virtual-asset standard, was among them and the status quo was kept: partially compliant. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is now compliant or largely compliant on 31 of the 40 Recommendations and remains in enhanced follow-up. CFATF has not announced the date of the next report.
The 19 June 2026 increased-monitoring statement left both tracked grey-listings unchanged: Bulgaria and the British Virgin Islands remain on the FATF grey list. Bulgaria's possible removal is expected to be considered at the October 2026 plenary.
Every jurisdiction guide carries a verified-as-of month: the last time its facts were deliberately confirmed against their primary sources and the result recorded in the comparison matrix that powers our tools. Routine site maintenance never moves these dates; only recorded research does. A guide missing from the ledger has no recorded verification date yet, which we treat as a gap to close, not a stamp to invent.
Verification data as of September 2026
The radar is the public face of the review machine behind our guide library: the same trigger calendar and figure checks that schedule our own re-research. Events enter the calendar when a regulator signals a development worth tracking, dated or not, and leave it when the outcome is recorded above. Nothing here is legal advice, and dates move: a pending act can be vetoed, and a plenary can defer a decision. Confirm the current position in the linked guide or a consultation before acting on it.
Each event is hand-curated into the same trigger calendar that schedules our internal content reviews, with a primary source attached: the regulator's own register, gazette, or statement. The radar publishes that calendar; it does not scrape or auto-generate events, so every entry reflects a deliberate editorial decision that a development is worth tracking.
It is the month a jurisdiction's facts were last deliberately confirmed. Three things move it: the comparison-matrix record updated after research, the whole guide re-read and re-checked, or a tracked key figure re-confirmed against its source. Routine site maintenance never moves the date, so a recent month reflects real verification work rather than cosmetic edits.
Confirming that something is still not published counts too. Where a regulator has left a fee, a capital floor or a licence category unpublished, we record the date we checked and the source we read, and we re-check it on the same clock as any other fact.
A watch item tracks a development a regulator has signalled but not scheduled, such as a pending law or an unpublished fee schedule. The date shown is our checkpoint: the point by which we expect movement and re-verify regardless. When the event lands, it moves to the confirmed list with its outcome and source.
The radar regenerates whenever the underlying calendar or verification records change, and a standing gate in our build fails if a published event is more than fourteen days past its date without an adjudicated outcome. An out-of-date radar therefore blocks our next release rather than lingering quietly, which is the property that makes the page worth trusting.