Virtual Currency, Digital Assets, Regulatory Standards

Blockchain 2024 - Bermuda (Legal 500)

Carey Olsen on 12/3/2024

Carey Olsen has contributed to The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide 2024 for Blockchain. The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of the law and practice of blockchain law across a variety...more

Blockchain 2024: BVI (Legal 500)

Carey Olsen on 11/19/2024

Carey Olsen has contributed to The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide 2024 for Blockchain. The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of the law and practice of blockchain law across a variety...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - November 2024 #3

BakerHostetler on 11/18/2024

Crypto Exchanges and Stablecoin Issuers Announce Multiple New Products - Multiple crypto sector companies have recently announced new products. In a press release, LayerZero, “an omnichain interoperability protocol that...more

Crypto Litigation Claims, Defenses Industry Should Watch

Bilzin Sumberg on 8/12/2022

Cryptocurrency companies face a steadily growing number of lawsuits, adding to a list of recent headaches for their industry. That list includes steep recent declines in investment value and a high probability of new...more

Crypto and Virtual Currency Risks

K2 Integrity on 1/26/2022

The ABA/ABA Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference took place January 11-13, with K2 Integrity Managing Director Gabriel Hidalgo, who leads the firm’s Crypto and Fintech Advisory practice, leading an important conversation...more

Pre-Enforcement Challenges—A Vital Tool for Regulated Parties in the United States

Jones Day on 12/13/2021

The digital asset industry has now met the regulatory state. Those interested in building digital asset businesses that operate in the United States thus need to be aware of a vital tool for resisting regulatory overreach by...more

Updated Guidance from the FATF Regarding a Risk-Based Approach for Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers

Polsinelli on 11/2/2021

On October 28, 2021, The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body that sets international standards with an aim to prevent global money laundering and terrorist financing, released updated guidance...more

BitBlog Weekly Summary: Digital Asset Regulations in New York State

Polsinelli on 8/27/2019

This week saw two items of note in the regulation of digital assets and both came out of the state of New York. The Return of the Empire State - A New York State Supreme Court ruled that it has personal and subject...more

Financial Action Task Force Drops the Regulatory Hammer on Virtual Currency

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/12/2019

On June 21, 2019, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”), a multi-national, inter-governmental body established in 1989 “to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures...more

The Financial Action Task Force and Virtual Assets

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 4/29/2019

The FATF (FATF) is an inter-governmental body with 38 members that sets standards and promotes the implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and threats...more

France Set to Enact the First Regulatory Framework for Crypto-asset Intermediaries

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 10/2/2018

After allowing registration and transfer of unlisted securities through distributed ledgers in 2017 and drafting legislation for initial coin offerings (ICOs) earlier this year, France is contemplating the introduction of a...more

G20 looks at October deadline for cryptocurrency AML regulation standards

Hogan Lovells on 7/30/2018

What has happened? G20 member countries are looking at an October deadline for reviewing a global anti-money laundering (AML) standard on cryptocurrency....more

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