Coinbase Wins UK License to Offer Stocks and Derivatives Alongside Crypto

Decrypt Agent

Tue, July 7, 2026 astatine 8:48 AM CDT 2 min read

Crypto speech Coinbase has won regulatory support to connection stocks and derivatives to UK customers, the biggest enlargement of its merchandise line-up successful 1 of its largest planetary markets and its latest determination toward what it calls the "everything exchange."

The speech said Tuesday it had been granted a UK concern services authorization, sometimes called a MiFID license, from the Financial Conduct Authority, allowing it to connection accepted fiscal instruments beyond crypto.

Retail users volition beryllium capable to commercialized equities connected Coinbase for the archetypal time, the institution said successful a statement, portion organization and precocious traders summation entree to derivatives spanning crypto, equity, and commodity perpetual futures.

The UK support advances Coinbase's ambition to go an "everything exchange", a azygous app spanning crypto, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, payments, and savings that pits it against brokerages, banks, and fintech apps. 

In the U.S., it became the archetypal centralized speech cleared to connection crypto perpetual futures and has begun rolling retired banal trading, Kalshi-powered prediction markets, and plans for tokenized equities. It precocious added savings and borrowing products for UK users.

The UK's caller rules

The authorization sits alongside Coinbase's UK e-money licence and crypto registration, a stack the institution said makes it the "most comprehensively regulated crypto player" successful the market. It arrives arsenic Britain finalizes its broader crypto rulebook, with the FCA publishing its model successful precocious June and a afloat authorities owed to instrumentality effect successful October 2027. Coinbase cited FCA probe estimating that astir 7 cardinal UK adults already clasp crypto.

For now, the derivatives volition beryllium restricted to organization and precocious traders. The FCA inactive bars the merchantability of crypto derivatives to UK retail investors, leaving equities arsenic the main caller merchandise for mundane users.