07/30/2018
Investigations carried out by FINMA to date indicate that, in the context of its ICO, envion AG accepted funds amounting to approximately one hundred million francs from more than 30,000 investors
07/30/2018
Bank lobbyists are now urging the Treasury Department to come up with a fix for last year’s tax overhaul that would lessen the pain from Gilti
07/27/2018
Shilpa Bhandarkar, Linklaters' first-ever head of innovation, on harvesting the best new ideas from the firm's fee earners
07/27/2018
It is quintessential that we have a payment mechanism that could facilitate payments in cryptocurrencies
07/25/2018
The costs merchants incur for such services may ultimately be reflected in the prices they charge and services they offer to their customers.
07/24/2018
Any financial services firm that wishes to participate in the pilot will need to contribute to the resourcing of them.
07/24/2018
UOB explained that it has increased the monitoring of all iTunes spending over recent weeks.
07/23/2018
The market for digital coins and tokens is still very young, and there is no widely-accepted standard for placing a value on a particular digital coin or token.
07/23/2018
The UK has 64 tax exchange agreements under the common reporting standard.
07/22/2018
The firm was working with insurers to provide cybersecurity insurance coverage for clients’ digital assets
07/18/2018
The British Virgin Islands is the appropriate home for Bank of Asia because the BVI is at the forefront of delivering high quality technological and innovative offshore services.
07/18/2018
Mr Green comments: “Cryptocurrencies are the future of money and they are already undeniably part of mainstream finance.
07/17/2018
Appleby can assist with additional support services in relation to requirements surrounding the compliance regime.
07/17/2018
The sector is often described as one of the most manual and paper-orientated parts of the financial services industry.
07/17/2018
Many fintechs have already taken steps to achieve European authorisation, including star banking challenger Revolut which chose to apply for a licence in Lithuania before attempting an application in the UK.
07/16/2018
The Premier stated that, in response to “market demand,” the Bermuda government set out to develop a legal framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) firms
07/13/2018
Speech by Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the FCA, delivered at the Duff & Phelps Global Enforcement Review 2018.
07/13/2018
The Taiwan government is also discussing, but has not concluded, developing further regulations for ICOs, and it is the hope of industry proponents that the need for government oversight will be minimized through the industry’s self-regulation.
07/13/2018
Blockchain technology is a decentralized public or private ledger that records transactions between two or more parties.
07/13/2018
The Philippine economy is built on remittances from overseas Filipino workers, who contributed US$33 billion to the country’s US$400 billion GDP in 2017.