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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

July 4, 2022

The EU Agrees on the Provisional MiCA Regulation

On the 30th June 2022, European Union (“EU”) officials agreed on a ‘balanced deal’ making the EU the first continent to provisionally regulate crypto-assets through this landmark law known as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (“MiCA”). The Read more

May 27, 2022

A Crypto-Sector Court Agreement: A step forward to legal cooperation in South Korea

By the decision of the South Korean courts, crypto holdings are now to be included within the debtor’s list of assets in relation to bankruptcy proceedings. This happened after a legal precedent was set in November 2021, which recognised that an Read more

May 12, 2022

The Regulation of Crypto Funds in Malta

A crypto fund can be defined as a collective investment scheme managing a portfolio consisting mainly of cryptocurrencies. These types of funds are on the rise, mainly due to the rapid growth in value of several cryptocurrencies. The development o Read more

January 17, 2022

The Regulatory Regime for Cryptocurrencies in Malta – Part I

Being at the forefront in regulating the cryptocurrency sector, Malta has implemented several regulations which provide a regulatory framework for service providers to operate, while also ensuring that investors are protected. In this article we s Read more