The Digital Euro project is the European Central Bank’s (ECB) response to the changing landscape of consumer payments, driven by the rise of cryptocurrency, payment fintechs and electronic transactions. A Digital Euro would...more
8/7/2023
/ Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
EU ,
European Central Bank ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda
Digital infrastructure transactions continue to increase globally, with investors particularly focused on mobile towers, data centres and fibre networks....more
Following months of protracted negotiations and coming four and a half years after the UK voted to leave the EU, 24 December 2020 saw the EU and UK finally agree the shape of their future relationship. While the Trade and...more
With the explosive growth in connected working and living, data centres are attracting an increasingly wide range of investors and activity looks set to grow....more
In-house lawyers have a leading role to play in helping their companies navigate the strategic, regulatory and operational challenges of digital transformation.
Allen & Overy LLP Corporate Partner Tom Levine discusses the...more
10/23/2019
In-house lawyers have a leading role to play in helping their companies navigate the strategic, regulatory and operational challenges of digital transformation.
Corporate partner Tom Levine discusses the issues that in-house...more
Luxembourg sets out to become a global hub for the utilization of space resources -
“Art.1. Space resources are capable of being owned.”
By recognising this legal principle through the adoption on 20 July 2017 of the...more
The discussions between the EU and the U.S. on the Safe Harbor mechanism seemed to be almost there, but this morning the EU Court of Justice’s Advocate General Yves Bot has set the cat among the pigeons in his Opinion on the...more
9/24/2015
/ Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Social Media ,
Surveillance ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Following years of debate and intense lobbying, a long awaited agreement has finally been reached on a proposed EU regulation on net neutrality and mobile roaming surcharges. This has its origins in the more ambitious...more