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  • Financial Regulation
02 Oct 2020
3 min to read

Russia Adopts Law on Digital Financial Assets: A Step Forward or Another Move Towards Further Restrictions?

Mariet Mezokh

A new Russian law ‘On digital financial assets, digital currency and amendments to certain laws of the Russian Federation’ dated July 31, 2020 (‘the Law’) introduces definitions of digital financial...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
16 Jul 2020
3 min to read

After Libra, the Digital Yuan and COVID-19: Central Bank Digital Currencies and the New World of Money and Payment Systems

Douglas W. Arner | Ross Buckley | Dirk A. Zetzsche | Anton Didenko

Three catalysts are currently causing a fundamental reorientation of domestic and international monetary and payment systems: Facebook’s Libra, China’s central bank digital currency (the Digital...

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  • Financial Regulation
04 Mar 2020
4 min to read

Central Bank Digital Currency and Payment Data

Luciano Somoza | Tammaro Terracciano

Over 70% of the 63 central banks surveyed by the BIS are researching Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and few of them have projects in advanced stages. They mostly focus on the impact on...

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  • Commercial Law
11 Feb 2019

English translation of the Mt Gox judgment on the legal status of bitcoin prepared by the Digital Assets Project

Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) | Megumi Hara | Charles W. Mooney, Jr.

The Digital Assets project, run through the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, has produced an annotated English translation of the judgment of the Tokyo District Court in August...

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  • Financial Regulation
03 Aug 2017

A Regulatory Outlook on Initial Coin Offerings

Suprotik Das | Arjya Majumdar

As of July 7th, 2017, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised over USD 380 million this year in exchange for the issuance of cryptocurrency. In the last 12 months or so, this process has emerged as...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
24 Apr 2017

How Blockchain Technology Will Impact the Digital Economy

Christian Catalini

The Platform of the Future? The survival of any organization depends on its ability to outperform competitors and marketplaces in attracting and rewarding talent, ideas and capital. As communication...

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