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U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair discusses future of digital asset regulation, calls for more legislative action

On August 19, U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke at a blockchain symposium where he outlined recent legislative progress and future plans for digital asset regulation. He highlighted the committee’s...more

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Commerce Requests Public Input on Digital Assets in Response to Biden’s Executive Order

Businesses connected to digital assets in any way have an opportunity to influence public policy if they submit comments by July 5, 2022. On May 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade...more

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Executive Order Encourages Antitrust Enforcers to Consider the Effect of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology on Competition...

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On March 9, 2022, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets that directs federal officials to consider the effects of “distributed ledger technology,” popularly known...more

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Crypto Love is a Battlefield

The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s. Where critics see a passing fad with little actual utility or a lawless...more

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Antitrust Enforcers Preview Incoming Spotlight on Blockchain

The tide of regulation of cryptocurrency and blockchain could be turning in the United States. Following comments by newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chair) Janet Yellen describing Bitcoin as...more

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The French Competition Authority launches a public consultation on the competitive situation of payment activities as part of its...

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The French Competition Authority launched its own initiative in early 2020, a sector study focusing on new technology applied to financial activity, particularly in the payments sector which has experienced major developments...more

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EU committee calls on Commission to set out common blockchain approach

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An advisory committee to EU institutions has issued an opinion on blockchain and the EU single market, advising the European Commission on potential next steps, including launching a "comprehensive" blockchain initiative,...more

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Supply Chain Blockchain Initiative Receives Federal Antitrust Exemption

TradeLens – a blockchain based shipping consortium – received an important antitrust exemption last week from the Federal Maritime Commission. The exemption allows five major container line shipping companies within the...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Competition Law and the Digital Economy in Canada

Competition law enforcement agencies have undertaken many new initiatives focused on the digital economy, including publishing position papers, developing enforcement strategies, hiring specialized personnel, and taking...more

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French legal and regulatory update - December 2018 to January 2019

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e - newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for April 2018. ...more

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Blockchains and Antitrust: New Technology, Same Old Risks?

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Blockchain technology, particularly private blockchains, can provide a technological curtain behind which business transactions occur. Still, any anticompetitive practices that stem from private blockchains are subject to...more

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OECD publishes issues paper on blockchain and competition law

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Competition law questions are increasingly raised in the public debate about the blockchain technology. While there is yet to be any investigation in this field, the policy debate about applying competition law instruments to...more

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OECD publishes issues paper on blockchain and competition law

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Competition law questions are increasingly raised in the public debate about the blockchain technology. While there is yet to be any investigation in this field, the policy debate about applying competition law instruments to...more

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TMT Horizons 2018

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Some of the 800+ Hogan Lovells lawyers who look at the TMT Industry Sector share their perspectives on the future. From Tokyo to Mexico; from Blockchain to satellites; from M&A to privacy. ...more

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Brussels Regulatory Brief: December

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On 10 November 2017, the European Union (“EU”) General Court (“GC”) rendered a judgment partially annulling the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision fining a broker for its involvement in the Libor Yen interest rate...more

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Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation Quarterly Newsletter - Autumn 2017

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First come, first served. That’s not the principle behind the clearance of Bitcoin transactions. Equally for other blockchain technology networks, the relevant factor to get a transaction on the next available block is not...more

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French Legal and Regulatory Update – October 2017

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for October 2017. ...more

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What blockchain can learn from the net neutrality debate: antitrust and regulatory aspects of “paid prioritization” for a nascent...

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First come, first served. That’s not the principle behind the clearance of Bitcoin transactions. Equally for other blockchain technology networks, the relevant factor to get a transaction on the next available block is not...more

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