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November 15, 2023

What are Non-Fungible Tokens?

Defining NFTs The crypto-asset markets have seen a surge of Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) in recent years. Despite that the first NFT was reportedly created in 2014 on the blockchain Namecoin, and then minted and sold in 2021 on another blockch Read more

November 2, 2023

Share Capital in Crypto?

Discover Malta’s Share Capital Requirements: When you consider engaging with the Maltese cutting edge technologies business sector, it is advisable to establish an entity in Malta. For this it is crucial to evaluate the pros and cons of su Read more

October 24, 2023

Fiduciary Shareholding and Investment-Based Crowdfunding

Similar to an Initial Coin Offering, Investment-Based Crowdfunding is an instrument to raise capital for an entrepreneurial venture and achieve a leverage effect with the money invested. If you wish to learn about the legal framework which may be Read more

October 16, 2023

Threads and the European Union

Meta’s new app not available in the EU In early July 2023, Mark Zuckerberg published Meta’s (formerly known as Facebook) response to Elon Musk’s Twitter – now X. Emanating from the same developers of Instagram and Facebook, Threads, became Read more

November 2, 2022

EU Commissioner visits United States for talks on Crypto Regulation

The European Union Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Mairead McGuinness, visited the United States in October to discuss the EU-US Cooperation on Digital and Sustainable Finance. This visit came af Read more

October 6, 2022

The European Council approves the MiCA Proposal

Following months of consultations, discussions and proposals, the final version of the proposed Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (“MiCA”) was approved by the European Council on the 5th of October 2022, confirmed by the Council’s Permanen Read more

September 16, 2022

MiCA – South Korean Central Bank says that future regulations may once again allow ICOs

According to a South Korean news report, the South Korean Central Bank (the “Bank”) indicated that Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) will be allowed under the European Union (“EU”) Digital Assets Framework Act, of which the proposed Mark Read more

August 19, 2022

EU Regulatory Developments parallel to MiCA

On the 24th of September 2020, the European Commission adopted a Digital Finance Package, which includes a digital finance strategy, together with three legislative proposals on Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), Markets in Crypto-As Read more

August 4, 2022

The Reasons and Scope behind the MiCA Regulation

The financial services sector is an ever-evolving field which will continue to grow and advance. This is understood by the European Union (“the EU”) and in 2020, the European Commission issued the Proposal for a Regulation on Markets in Crypto Read more

July 13, 2022

FATF update on Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers

In 2019 the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) extended its anti-money laundering and counter- financing of terrorism (“AML/CFT”) measures’ oversight to also cover Virtual Assets (“VAs”) and Virtual Assets Service Providers (“VAS Read more