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AML/CFT Compliance in Luxembourg: New Obligations for Funds

Goodwin on 3/12/2025

Against the backdrop of reinforced European and international anti-money-laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements, the Administration de l’enregistrement, des domaines et de la TVA (AED) has...more

Regulatory & Risk Advisory Outlook 2025: Cayman Islands

Conyers on 1/22/2025

2024 was once again an active year for the Cayman Islands regulatory industry. In this edition of our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Outlook, our team has summarised the key changes and news during 2024 and taken a look at the...more

Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review: Cayman Islands – January to March 2024

Conyers on 5/1/2024

Welcome to the first instalment of 2024 of our Cayman Islands Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review. As we cover in this issue, there have been a number of updates in the first quarter of the year. Perhaps most notably is the...more

The Economic Impact of FATF Grey-Listing

White & Case LLP on 10/31/2023

The Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") is the global standard-setter on anti-money laundering ("AML"), countering terrorist financing ("CFT") and counter proliferation financing. FATF's standards, also referred to as...more

Proposed Changes to European Union AML/CFT Supervision Regime Signal Major Expansion

K2 Integrity on 8/11/2021

The European Commission, on July 20, 2021, unveiled a landmark legislative proposal that would overhaul the European Union’s approach to anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (“AML/CFT”), creating a...more

FATF Report to the G20 on Stablecoins

K&L Gates LLP on 7/16/2020

Stablecoins have attracted much regulatory attention lately. The G7 working group on stablecoins, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the European Commission are...more

European Real Estate Finance: Recent developments – June 2019

White & Case LLP on 6/11/2019

As part of our periodic updates, here is an overview of recent developments of relevance to participants in the real estate finance market across certain key jurisdictions in Europe....more

Financial Regulatory Observer – March 2019: FRO in-depth: The future of cryptoassets regulation

White & Case LLP on 4/1/2019

Partners Julia Smithers Excell and Stuart Willey, and associate Laura Kitchen of global law firm White & Case take a deep dive on the latest publications from EU and UK regulators aimed at providing supervisory clarity on the...more

Blockchain Week in Review - December 2018

Perkins Coie on 12/13/2018

U.S. Developments - SEC Remarks on International Virtual Currency Enforcement - On December 5, 2018, Steven Peikin, Co-Director of the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), gave a...more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - November 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/8/2018

This is the second edition of The Distributed Ledger, a periodic publication covering the latest trends and developments in blockchain technology, digital assets and smart contracts. In this issue, we examine the SEC’s new...more

Virtual Currency: Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Update

Perkins Coie on 7/26/2018

On July 18, 2018, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”), published its report to the July 2018 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meeting. The report sets out FATF’s ongoing work to fight money laundering...more

Digital Currencies: International Actions and Regulations

Perkins Coie on 1/27/2017

Argentina - Virtual currencies are not legal tender under the country’s National Constitution, which designates the Central Bank as the only authority that may issue legal tender. Although not specifically regulated,...more

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