20 Dec, 2024 FCA publishes discussion paper on admissions and disclosures and the market abuse regime for cryptoassets By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Christopher Bernard Noah Schmidt Eden Elder +4 more... Show less On 16 December 2024 the FCA published its much-anticipated Discussion Paper on (i) cryptoasset admissions and disclosures and (ii) the...
02 Dec, 2024 Regulating cryptoassets in the UK: a guide to the road ahead By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
01 Aug, 2024 Law Commission publishes Draft Bill on digital assets as personal property By Emma Probyn Claire Harrop Christine Simpson Georgia Onslow +1 more... Show less On 30 July 2024 the Law Commission of England and Wales published a supplemental report and amended draft bill which would introduce a...
01 Aug, 2024 FCA issues inaugural fine under Electronic Money Regulations 2011 By Claire Harrop Christine Simpson Georgia Onslow On 23 July 2024 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a Final Notice against CB Payments Limited (CBPL), fining it c.£3.5m for a...
04 Dec, 2023 FCA issues Guidance on UK Cryptoassets Financial Promotions By Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Naomi Saenz Coloma In a further example of UK cryptoasset regulation, the FCA recently published its Guidance on Cryptoasset Financial Promotions (here)...
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...
19 Jun, 2023 FCA publishes final policy position on financial promotion rules for cryptoassets and near-final rules By Cyrus Pocha Craig Dewar Karishma Paun On 8 June 2023, the FCA published a policy statement (PS 23/6) setting out its final policy position on financial promotion rules for...
14 Apr, 2023 UK Financial Promotions Regime to Extend to ‘Qualifying Cryptoassets’ By Thomas Clark Christine Simpson Greg King Laila Pourdad +1 more... Show less On 27 March 2023 the UK Treasury published a draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order...
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...
06 Apr, 2022 Tulip Trading: when do blockchain developers owe duties to their users? By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Sophie Horton In an judgment on the question of jurisdiction in the case of Tulip Trading Ltd v. Bitcoin Association for BSV and others [2022] EWHC 667...
05 Apr, 2022 Crypto fraud: interim remedies in the English courts By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Min Ee Phang As the market for cryptoassets continues to increase in size and spread, so too have levels of crypto fraud. Between April and September...
16 Aug, 2021 The EU’s proposed AML law: the impact on crypto-asset service providers By Alexander Glos Marius Raetz Corinna Wiedenmann Daniel Klingenbrunn +1 more... Show less The growing popularity of crypto-assets has led to their increasing use in money-laundering schemes. A Europol study cited in the...