{"id":658819,"date":"2026-09-18T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/binance-brushes-off-lagarde-mica-speculation-reaffirms-europe-commitment\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:53:01","slug":"binance-brushes-off-lagarde-mica-speculation-reaffirms-europe-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/binance-brushes-off-lagarde-mica-speculation-reaffirms-europe-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance brushes off Lagarde MiCA speculation, reaffirms Europe commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M2STMBSK2VDWAGTJC3MX17R7\/europe-binance-1.jpg\" alt=\"Binance brushes off Lagarde MiCA speculation, reaffirms Europe commitment\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Binance declined to address reports of ECB intervention in its Greek MiCA bid, saying it remains committed to securing authorization in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Binance declined to address a report that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde intervened in its failed Greek crypto license bid and said it continues seeking authorization under the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/currencies\/christine-lagarde-helped-block-binances-foothold-in-europe-d905c86d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Friday that a vice chair of Greece\u2019s Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) told Binance that Lagarde had asked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve its application.<\/p>\n<p>Greek officials informed the European Securities and Markets Authority in early June that the regulator intended to approve the license, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/binance-cites-speculation-report-ecb-chief-mica-intervention\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binance declined to address reports of ECB intervention in its Greek MiCA bid, saying it remains committed to securing authorization in Europe. Binance declined to address a report that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde intervened in its failed Greek crypto license bid and said it continues seeking authorization under the European Union\u2019s Markets in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}