The Seqlense Regulatory Brief - Edition #26 - EN

The Seqlense Regulatory Brief - Edition #26 Edition #26 shows European supervision changing scale on technology. On 23 September 2026, ESMA announced a new Union Strategic Supervisory Priority, "Innovation with investor safeguards", starting in 2027, with AI and tokenisation as the first areas examined: mapping of uses, common supervisory methods and initial checks on particularly concerned firms. Two days earlier, the EDPB adopted its final guidelines on the interplay between the DSA and the GDPR, framing the algorithmic systems used by platforms (automated moderation, recommender systems, age verification). Neither text creates new obligations, but both announce the themes of future information requests and inspections: the European challenge is shifting from adopting rules to verifying technological uses in practice.