Government plans to supercharge the digital assets industry, with crypto dealing and custody regimes the icing on the cake for a holistic regulatory framework....more
7/2/2025
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Financial Regulatory Reform ,
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The case involves substantive litigation that could yield important legal principles for the treatment of decentralised projects.
Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAO) are unique structures that operate...more
The government will enact the new legislation to bring issuers of fiat-referencing stablecoins into the regulatory perimeter.
On 17 July 2024, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Hong Kong Monetary...more
7/29/2024
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Licensing Rules ,
Sandbox ,
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Although still actively developing, current UK policy thinking in relation to cryptocurrencies was set out by the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce in its Final Report (the “Taskforce Report”), published in October 2018.
The...more
11/19/2019
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Blockchain ,
CFTC ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Custody ,
Digital Assets ,
Financial Services Industry ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Income Taxes ,
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Regulatory Requirements ,
Smart Contracts ,
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