According to official sources, Slovenia's securities regulator has granted Bitstamp a MiFID MTF license, enabling the cryptocurrency trading platform to offer more complex products to institutional and retail clients. The license also allows Bitstamp to launch crypto derivatives, including perpetual contracts.
ECB President Christine Lagarde will address the official Slovenian Central Bank dinner in ten minutes.
Slovenia has become the first European Union member state to issue a 30 million euro (32.50 million dollar) sovereign digital bond, settled on-chain via the Bank of France's tokenized cash system, as part of the ECB's experimental monetary settlement program. The four-month note, which matures on November 25, has a coupon rate of 3.65 percent. The Slovenian government said it settled on Thursday in a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC).