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  • Financial Regulation
17 Feb 2021
4 min to read

Towards a Common Framework for the Acceptance of DLT Applications in the EU Banking Sector

Elisabeth Noble

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
09 Dec 2020
3 min to read

Sustainable Finance and Fintech: A Preliminary Assessment of ‘Green FinTech’

Eugenia Macchiavello | Michele Siri

The EU’s Fintech Action Plan (more recently, the Digital Finance Strategy) and the Sustainable Finance Action Plan represent important pillars of the current European policy agenda. While the two...

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  • Financial Regulation
03 Feb 2020
4 min to read

Crypto-assets: Towards a Comprehensive Regulatory Framework

Elisabeth Noble

In 2019 crypto-asset activities moved squarely within the sights of the EU Commission and international standard-setting bodies and decisive regulatory action can be expected in the year ahead...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
05 Aug 2019
3 min to read

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets in Asia

Ross P. Buckley | Anton Didenko | Douglas W. Arner | Cyn-Young Park | Bo Zhao

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain have attracted massive investment interest globally, which reflects their substantial transformative potential, especially in the financial sector...

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  • Financial Regulation
28 Sep 2017

Blockchain & Liability

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Ross P. Buckley | Douglas W. Arner

Over the past several years, interest in distributed ledger technology (‘DLT’), such as Blockchain, has exploded. Regulators, consultants, technology firms and academia are promoting DLT for...

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