Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
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Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a...
On 22 April 2021 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, published its Digital Dispute...
On 24th August the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD, an arm of the World Bank, issued a small tranche of AUD...
New EU rules which purport to clamp down on “aggressive tax planning” are set to impose a huge compliance burden on taxpayers and their...
If a week is a long time in politics, 24 hours is an eternity in blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Keeping ahead of the hourly...
The wait is over. Today, after much speculation about both process and substance, the proposed new disclosure rules for civil litigation...
ICOs refer to a digital way of raising funds (usually for tech start-ups) in which investors pay in cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin or...
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on 25 September the creation of a new Cyber Unit to investigate initial coin offering...