{"id":96483,"date":"2026-08-03T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/96483\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:57:10","slug":"robinhood-gets-uks-permission-to-offer-crypto-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/96483\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood Gets UK\u2019s Permission to Offer Crypto Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robinhood<\/a> received regulatory permission to begin offering cryptocurrency services in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The traditional platform has been part of the Financial Conduct Authority<\/a>\u2019s list of registered cryptoasset companies<\/a> since July 31.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s inclusion by the FCA was flagged in a Monday (Aug. 3) CoinDesk report<\/a>, which said Robinhood\u2019s new permission has special significance ahead of the adoption of a more comprehensive framework for digital asset regulation in the U.K.<\/p>\n

Legislation earlier this year placed crypto under the FCA\u2019s regulatory umbrella<\/a>. New rules that go into effect in October 2027 will keep the authority\u2019s oversight of crypto limited to financial promotions and anti-money laundering controls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a significant moment for crypto regulation in the U.K.,\u201d David Geale<\/a>, the FCA\u2019s executive director of payments and digital finance, said earlier this year. \u201cWe\u2019ve created a framework that doesn\u2019t force firms to choose between regulatory certainty and room to innovate. This regime means they can have both in a stable, competitive home to build and grow. For consumers, it means firms will be held to similar standards to other financial providers, though we can\u2019t regulate away risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The relatively short window for businesses to register and win full regulatory approval means those companies already registered under the FCA\u2019s regime might have done a substantial amount of advanced work, the CoinDesk report said.<\/p>\n

Robinhood last week reported earnings<\/a> showing record quarterly revenue of $1.3 billion, a 32% increase from a year earlier, along with new highs in the company\u2019s equities, options and prediction market business.<\/p>\n

However, management said Robinhood\u2019s next phase is not mainly about processing more trades.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross prediction markets, tokenized assets, banking and credit cards, the financial platform is attempting to control more of the customer relationship and more of the transaction stack beneath it,\u201d PYMNTS reported Wednesday (July 29).<\/p>\n

The company is also preparing for the day when financial activity is initiated by software agents, not by customers navigating applications on their own.<\/p>\n

Robinhood\u2019s first agentic trading product<\/a> still has some bugs, but its long-term implication is greater than user experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next stage will not be decided by whether Robinhood can launch another popular feature,\u201d the PYMNTS report said. \u201cIt will be decided by whether it can make a complex portfolio of products behave like one financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robinhood received regulatory permission to begin offering cryptocurrency services in the United Kingdom. The traditional platform has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3408,12735,18,1077,39779,33861,5,6,1078],"class_list":["post-96483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-news","tag-pymnts-news","tag-regulations","tag-robinhood","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-whats-hot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117032402545971864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}