WSJ: Lagarde Blocked Binance’s EU License and Left It Locked Out
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked out of the bloc.
This is a short WorldPing brief. The full report was published by Bitcoin.com.
Although the ECB holds no formal licensing authority under MiCA, high-level intervention led Greece to stall an application that regulators had previously deemed complete, the Journal said.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by CoinDesk