ESMA Says EU Retail Ban Covers Many Prediction Markets, With MiCA Awaiting the Tokenized Ones
Europe’s top securities regulator has clarified that many prediction-market event contracts already fall under the EU’s existing retail ban on binary options – meaning the restriction is live law, not a proposed rule – w...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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ESMA is showing up inside the Regulation theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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