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Key Areas of Supervision in 2020 – BaFin playing catch up with digitalisation

What will 2020 bring for the German financial regulator regarding digitalisation, innovation and more. A review of BaFin’s Key Areas of Supervision for the New Year already in full swing. Last week, Germany’s financial regulator opened its doors to the annual BaFin New Year Press Conference. Everybody talks Beethoven these days in Germany as everybody …

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The truth about Blockchain or An Introduction to the Digitalization of Venture Capital

Blockchain was going to change almost everything. It would even achieve the transformation and digitalization of VC, but the hype was followed by disenchantment, but neither is right. Here is why. A brief history of the Blockchain Rollercoaster Blockchain has come a long way: from the first works on “a cryptographically secured chain of blocks” and the …

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A solution that may have found its problem: Trade Finance and Blockchain

The honeymoon for Blockchain is over. Excitement has turned into disillusion and disappointment. Coined (no pun intended) a solution looking for a problem, the application of the technology in Trade Finance is a silver lining in times of Blockchain gloom. Let’s face it: Blockchain has seen better times! Cryptocurrencies have been in a slump even …

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The Future of FinTech – 4 Takeaways from the Fin&Tech Summit in Bordeaux

Last week was all about the fifth edition of the Fin&Tech Summit  in Bordeaux. Organised by Montaigne Conseil in collaboration with the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Kedge Business School, a very well-organised event brought together experts from all over the world to discuss the Future of FinTech – and few other aspects… Time to piece together …

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LegalTech + RegTech = Tools for an increasingly complex world

The value of data is said to overtake that of oil, but nowhere else it appears to be worth more than in finance. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 was caused by poor risk data management, and the regulators’ unawareness of accumulated systemic risk stemming from contractual obligations. In a new book, Akber Datoo argues …

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Why Blockchain Technology is the Answer to the Digital Identity Crisis

Identity has always been at the centre of business and society. Without it neither works. In the digital age and a world that spins ever faster, digital identity in times of fake news and surging cybercrime becomes even more important and vulnerable at the same time. Blockchain Technology is often named as a solution to …

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ICO, STO, ITO – The Requirements If You Launch In Germany

Finally, here it is: a comprehensive list of the requirements you need to keep in mind if you want to launch an ICO, STO or ITO in Germany – straight from the regulator. Long considered an unregulated area, token offerings continue their way into mainstream. Along this rocky path, it has become apparent that the …

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What Sustainable Finance means for Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies

Do you remember the days when one Bitcoin was worth twenty grand? That’s 18 months ago when right before Christmas the leading cryptocurrency reached its all-time high. And it wasn’t only BTC that climbed such heights. Many other cryptocurrencies exploded in value during the ICO frenzy when anyone with a decent idea (or not) a …

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Swan Song or Resurrection: The current situation in cryptocurrencies in a handful of charts

Is Crypto dead? Of course not! The question that made the rounds across the internet because of the continued funk in coin value or the apparent lack of further adoption in the real economy was just another sign of how emotional and often irrational the discussion gets. Just take the recent rebound of Bitcoin, Ethereum …

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The G20 and the future of Crypto regulations – What to expect from the coming Summit

Little more than a month until the next G20 summit in Japan and the crypto community is already speculating fervidly what it will bring. No wonder as the discussions of the leaders of the world’s most important economies will decide what the future of Crypto regulations will be. Once a year the leaders of 19 …

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