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Report: Initial Coin Offerings: 30 July 2019
Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) typically use Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) to offer transferable units (“coins” or “digital tokens”) that confer various rights on the holder of record. ICOs can be […]
Letter to HM Treasury on 5MLD and Cryptoassets: 30 July 2019
Directive (EU) 2018/843 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (the “Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive” or “5MLD”) expands […]
Report: U.S. Sanctions and the E.U. Blocking Regulation: 14 June 2019
On 8 May 2018, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the “JCPOA”) and the re-introduction of its nuclear-related economic sanctions on Iran that […]
Securities Markets Scoping Forum meeting: 12 June 2019
This meeting of the Securities Markets Scoping Forum was chaired by Raj Panasar of Cleary Gottleib Steen & Hamilton LLP. David Bloom from Sun Trust Bank in New York attended […]
Letter to European Parliament: Proposal for a Regulation on the Law applicable to the Third-party Effects of Assignments of Claims: 24 April 2019
On 12 March 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law applicable to the third-party effects of […]
“Onshoring” Statutory Instruments Comment Series: Securitisation: 29 March 2019
The draft Securitisation Amendment (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 will ensure that the new securitisation regime, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 laying down a general framework for securitisation and […]