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French Jurisdictions Rulings on the Liability of Digital Asset Service Providers in Managing Clients’ Crypto-assets

Goodwin on 10/11/2024

In the past four months, the French judicial court has provided significant clarifications regarding the liability of digital asset service providers (DASPs) in managing their clients’ crypto-assets through three key rulings....more

Global Legal Insights FinTech 2024: Ireland chapter

Walkers on 9/27/2024

The Irish government has been supportive of the development of the financial services sector in Ireland and this extends to fintech. The government’s strategy for the development of Ireland’s international financial services...more

2024 Financial Institutions Outlook & Trends

White & Case LLP on 5/14/2024

This article, updated quarterly, looks ahead to the areas expected to be prioritized by financial services regulators across the globe; we look at the key regulatory trends emerging from the past year which inform our...more

Acquiring or Investing in EU Crypto-Asset Businesses: Further Clarity on MiCA

Goodwin on 4/18/2024

In our previous alert “Acquiring or Investing in EU Crypto-Asset Businesses: MiCA’s Impact,” we discussed the impact of the European Union (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) on the acquisition or investment in EU...more

Regulation Round Up - December 2023

Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/4/2024

Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in December 2023: 21 December - UK / Swiss Regulatory...more

Crypto Products Launch in Custody, Web3 Wallets, Debit Cards, Stablecoins; Regulators Address Stablecoins; OFAC and DOJ Announce...

BakerHostetler on 11/13/2023

Crypto Custody Providers Launch Institutional Focused Offerings - According to a recent press release by BitGo, a major U.S. cryptocurrency custody provider, BitGo’s GoNetwork and Copper’s ClearLoop have entered into a...more

Swiss Banks Launch Crypto Offerings; GAO Addresses SEC Crypto Bulletin; UK and Hong Kong Publish Crypto Guidance; DOJ and SEC...

BakerHostetler on 11/6/2023

Swiss Banks Launch Tokenization Pilot, Crypto Custody and Trading Services - A recent press release announced a pilot by “SIX, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and six commercial banks” that seeks “to test, in a live...more

Crypto Regulation in Europe: ESMA Statement Clarifies process for the Transition to MiCA

Goodwin on 10/25/2023

On 17 October 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a statement (the Statement) clarifying the timeline for implementation of the Regulation on Markets in Cryptoassets ((EU) 2023/1114) (MiCA)...more

Acquiring or Investing in EU Crypto-Asset Businesses: MiCA’s Impact

Goodwin on 9/8/2023

As noted in our previous alerts “Marketing Crypto-Assets in and Into Europe: MiCA, the EU’s New Uniform Crypto Code” and “Doing Crypto Business in Europe: MiCA, the EU’s New Uniform Crypto Code – Part 2”, the European Union...more

Legal hot takes – the ECB’s Digital Euro

A&O Shearman on 8/7/2023

The Digital Euro project is the European Central Bank’s (ECB) response to the changing landscape of consumer payments, driven by the rise of cryptocurrency, payment fintechs and electronic transactions. A Digital Euro would...more

Proposed EU Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets Approved by European Parliament

A&O Shearman on 5/10/2023

On April 20, 2023, the agreed text of the proposed European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation was given final approval by the European Parliament. The Regulation is intended to improve legal certainty in the regulatory...more

Central Bank’s Securities Markets Risk Outlook Report, Supervisory Priorities for 2023 and Key Areas of Focus for Funds and their...

Walkers on 3/9/2023

On 2 March 2023, the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) published its third annual Securities Markets Risk Outlook Report (the “Report”). The Report highlights the conduct risks that the Central Bank has identified...more

MiCA – Overview of the New EU Crypto-asset Regulatory Framework (Part 1)

K&L Gates LLP on 11/17/2022

On 30 June 2022, the new EU Market in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCA) was agreed on between the European Commission (Commission), the European Parliament (Parliament), and the Council of the European Union (Council). MiCA is...more

EU Close to Introducing Groundbreaking Law to Regulate Crypto

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/28/2022

In October 2022 the European Council approved the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation, one of the first attempts globally at comprehensive regulation of cryptocurrency markets. The regulation extends to money...more

European Crypto Regulation on the Verge of Enactment

Orrick - On the Chain on 10/25/2022

The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations are now all but final and may take effect this year. MiCA will provide new regulatory frameworks, including licensing and disclosure obligations, for participants in the...more

Buying a UK Crypto Business: The New Regulatory Hurdles

Goodwin on 9/21/2022

The advance of the regulation of crypto-assets and crypto-related service providers has been piecemeal in the U.K. The latest round of changes took place in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR) on 1 September...more

Countdown to MiCA: The EU’s cryptoassets regulation

Dechert LLP on 7/15/2022

On 30 June 2022, the European Council (Council) and the European Parliament (Parliament), announced that they had reached a provisional agreement on the proposal for regulation on markets in cryptoassets (MiCA), which covers...more

EU Extends Travel Rule to Crypto-Assets

Jones Day on 7/8/2022

On June 29, 2022, the European Parliament, the Commission, and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the European Union proposal to update Regulation 2015/847 on information accompanying the transfer of funds ("TFR")...more

European Central Bank Executive Board Member Decries “Crypto Gamble” and Echoing SEC Chair Gensler, Calls for Regulation of the...

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 4/29/2022

In a speech given this week at Columbia University by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), he decried the entire “crypto gamble,” seeing crypto-assets as “bringing about instability...more

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