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The European Commission published its new Digital Finance Strategy on 24 September 2020 (DFS 2020). At the core of this strategy lie the legislative proposals for an EU regulatory framework on crypto...

This post is based on a chapter in my forthcoming book, Regulating the Crypto-economy (Hart Publishing). A brief introduction to the book sets the context for the arguments made in the chapter...

The European Commission published its new Digital Finance Strategy on 24 September 2020. One of its centrepieces is the draft Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), designed to provide a...

In the history of international monetary and payment systems, very few developments have witnessed the same breadth and intensity of change in a short period of time as cryptoassets. Over the past...

My recent paper titled ‘Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation?’ looks at the importance of the law in a crypto-market and recognises that the market is a legal construct...

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...

The Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore is holding a conference on the Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era on 9 - 10 March...

On 30 July 2019 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its Final Guidance on its approach to cryptoassets. An ambiguity which the Final Guidance has caused concerns the FCA's previously...

The UK Jurisdiction Task Force (UKJT) is one of the six taskforces of the LawTech Delivery Panel, formed with the aim of ensuring that English law and the jurisdiction of England and Wales together...

On 23 January 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a guidance on cryptoassets (FCA-GC) with the purpose of improving and clarifying the regulatory framework of cryptoassets in the...

In a recent in-depth study commissioned by the European Parliament ECON Committee, we explore the legal and regulatory challenges for the Eurosystem that arise from the startling growth of the market...