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Europe's Top Court Just Ended the Golden Passport. Here's What It Didn't End.
The CJEU ruled Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme illegal in April 2025 -- the EU's last such program. What the ruling actually said, why golden visas (residency, not citizenship) are a different legal question, and what every other CBI program should take from it.
Read the article →The State of Citizenship by Investment in 2026: What Tightened, What Closed, What's New
Antigua's minimum more than doubled. Vanuatu was suspended, reformed, and lost EU Schengen access. A new regional regulator now oversees five Caribbean programs at once. A year-in-review of a landscape that never stopped moving.
Read the article →FATF's Travel Rule and What It Actually Means for a Crypto-Funded Citizenship Application
83% of jurisdictions have now passed Travel Rule legislation, but thresholds range from zero to $3,000 depending on where you ask. Here's what that patchwork means for an applicant funding a second passport in Bitcoin.
Read the article →Could the Digital Dirham Fund a Golden Visa? The UAE's CBDC, One Year From Full Rollout
The Digital Dirham settled its first government transaction over mBridge in November 2025. It's legal tender, expanding fast, and still not accepted by a single residency or citizenship program anywhere. Why that's about to become interesting.
Read the article →India's e₹ Just Crossed 10 Million Users. Its Cross-Border Ambitions Matter More.
The RBI's digital rupee is now inside welfare disbursement pilots in two states — and quietly building the cross-border rail with Singapore and the UAE that could someday touch investment migration.
Read the article →mBridge Is Quietly Becoming the Corridor Everyone Else Has to Answer To
Four central banks can already settle directly in each other's digital currencies, in minutes, without a correspondent bank in the middle. Here's why that architecture — not any single CBDC — is the thing worth watching.
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