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First Blockchain Antitrust Market Study Launches in Luxembourg

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The Luxembourg Competition Authority (“LCA”) announced that it is launching a market study into the “blockchain sector,” particularly the relationship between Web21 companies and Web32 projects. In its press release, the LCA...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.26.2021 | Top Story: Top Crypto Exchanges Limit Leverage to Curb Risk

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A pair of the most prominent cryptocurrency exchanges announced this weekend that they’re taking steps to “curb a type of high-risk trading that has been blamed for sharp fluctuations in the value of Bitcoin and the...more

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Antitrust Enforcers Preview Incoming Spotlight on Blockchain

The tide of regulation of cryptocurrency and blockchain could be turning in the United States. Following comments by newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chair) Janet Yellen describing Bitcoin as...more

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Uncle Sam Wants to Protect Blockchain Technology

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On August 27, 2020, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), Makan Delrahim, spoke at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics and emphasized that one of the DOJ’s top...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - November 2018 #3

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In This Issue. Federal banking regulators proposed the long-awaited “community bank leverage ratio,” which would exempt community banks with a leverage ratio of at least 9% from Basel III capital requirements; the Federal...more

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Blockchains and Antitrust: New Technology, Same Old Risks?

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Blockchain technology, particularly private blockchains, can provide a technological curtain behind which business transactions occur. Still, any anticompetitive practices that stem from private blockchains are subject to...more

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