ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to block Binance’s EU MiCA license: WSJ
CoinDesk· Olivier Acuna· Sep 18, 2026 · 12:57 PM

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.
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