Just when you thought STOs were the answer to the ICO impasse, the financial watchdog of HK issues a warning against investing in Security Tokens. Does this spell the beginning of the end for STOs in similar way the Chinese crack down on cryptocurrencies and ICOs did in September 2017 or what should we make …
More than nine months have passed since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect but still many companies struggle to adapt to the new rules and the increasing number of fines is a testament to that. And those that seem to have dodged the bullet so far, the next one seems on its …
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The German financial regulator BaFin has published the latest edition of its BaFinJournal (in German), its monthly specialist magazine and main news bulletin that consists of expert articles, interviews and reports on key national and international supervisory issues as well as official announcements. The March edition focuses on credit score, Solvency II for insurers, alternative …
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Don’t worry, we’re not going to bore you with some dreadful legal analysis of smart contracts and IoT law. There are plenty of articles available by smart lawyers (no pun intended) on the legal aspects that delve into all the details you might want to know about. But when you talk to people in the …
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Why Cybersecurity needs to be considered a competitive advantage rather than just damage control. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a nonprofit policy research organization, last year together with McAfee published a report that put the annual cost of cybercrime at approximately $600 billion, or 0.8% of global GDP. An absolutely mind blowing …
One of the things that got me thinking early in my career in financial services was the realisation that many financial instruments are not registered. Or, as I should better say, their beneficial owner is not registered or at least not updated in a way that any given time the actual beneficial owner could be …
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BaFin has issued another warning against ICOs. What doesn’t seem to be a big deal, is also a testament to the lack of proactivity and symbolises the German difficulties in the FinTech race. Some time ago we published an article about the state of ICOs in Germany. It came on the back of an announcement …
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