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
4/1/2019
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bank of England ,
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) ,
Bearer Shares ,
Collective Investment Schemes ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Cryptoassets ,
CSDR ,
Debt Instruments ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Electronic Payment Transactions ,
EU ,
EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR) ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Exchange Tokens ,
FATF ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Instruments ,
FinTech ,
HM Treasury ,
Information Reports ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Member State ,
MiFID II ,
Popular ,
Prospectus ,
PSD2 ,
Securities ,
Securities Tokens ,
Transparency ,
UK ,
UK Regulated Activities Order (RAO Amendments) ,
Utility Tokens
The UK FCA launched on 23 January 2019 its highly anticipated consultation1 (CP19/3) on Guidance for market participants as to where certain cryptoassets sit in relation to the regulatory perimeter - and whether relevant...more
1/28/2019
/ Bitcoin ,
Collective Investment Schemes ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Debt Instruments ,
Ether ,
Exchange-Traded Products ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Market Abuse ,
Market Participants ,
MiFID II ,
Money Laundering ,
New Guidance ,
Prospectus ,
Securities ,
Securities Tokens ,
SMCR ,
Token Sales ,
Transparency ,
UK ,
UK Regulated Activities Order (RAO Amendments) ,
Utility Tokens
On 9 January 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA)1 and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)2 published two reports with their advice on cryptoassets for the European Commission (EC) (and in ESMA's case,...more
1/15/2019
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Cryptocurrency ,
CSDR ,
Digital Currency ,
EU ,
EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR) ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) ,
FinTech ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
MiFID II ,
Risk Management ,
Securities ,
Virtual Currency