03 Sep, 2024 Herding cats: English law and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations By Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Joana Fragata Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
03 May, 2024 The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
27 Nov, 2023 Cryptoasset regulation: UK regulators give the industry a further glimpse of the future By Cyrus Pocha Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
20 Dec, 2022 UK digital assets disputes in 2022 and what to expect in 2023 By Simon Orton Thomas Clark Emma Probyn George Ho +1 more... Show less 2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a...
23 Apr, 2021 UK Jurisdiction Taskforce publishes groundbreaking Digital Dispute Resolution Rules By Roopa Mathews On 22 April 2021 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, published its Digital Dispute...
13 Sep, 2018 Blockchain bonds- when the world is not enough By Rupert Macey-Dare On 24th August the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD, an arm of the World Bank, issued a small tranche of AUD...
10 Jul, 2018 DAC 6: Corporates and advisers grapple with new EU tax disclosure requirements By Brin Rajathurai New EU rules which purport to clamp down on “aggressive tax planning” are set to impose a huge compliance burden on taxpayers and their...
06 Feb, 2018 Bitcoin bans, class actions and EU research: latest crypto regulation in brief By Edward Beard If a week is a long time in politics, 24 hours is an eternity in blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Keeping ahead of the hourly...
02 Nov, 2017 Civil litigation disclosure: the reforms are revealed By Tom Snelling The wait is over. Today, after much speculation about both process and substance, the proposed new disclosure rules for civil litigation...
01 Nov, 2017 Initial coin offerings (ICOs) – the risks of investing By Christina Seneviratne ICOs refer to a digital way of raising funds (usually for tech start-ups) in which investors pay in cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin or...
30 Oct, 2017 SEC announces "Cyber Unit" to target crypto coin misconduct By Edward Beard The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on 25 September the creation of a new Cyber Unit to investigate initial coin offering...
04 Oct, 2017 Responding to SARs – proportionality & beyond? By Thomas van der Klugt Amongst other things, the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – due to be implemented in May 2018 – aims to strengthen and...