In the fast evolving world of FinTech and RegTech, the MFSA is positioning itself as a leading innovator, while ensuring that a robust regulatory framework is in place which is efficient and allows the industry to innovate and develop. The MFSA’s aim in developing a new framework for virtual financial assets hinges on the need for a robust regulatory structure ensuring effective investor protection, financial market integrity and financial stability. Malta is the first country to regulate DLT and crypto assets in such a holistic manner, covering both the technological as well as the financial services components. Such approach gives legal certainty to such an embryonic sector until such time that an international consensus is reached on a more harmonised regime.