10/08/2019

SFC sets terms for crypto funds

The Hong Kong securities regulator has published its licensing requirements for the territory’s virtual asset fund managers.

10/07/2019

Bitcoin isn’t a security according to SEC staff

Moreover, if Bitcoin were a security, it would “raise substantial other issues” because bitcoin would be a massive “unregistered publicly-offered security” and the fund would be an underwriter.

10/06/2019

QC Corner: James Ramsden QC

The UK court will decide a claim brought by a Russian investor allegedly defrauded when large quantities of bitcoin were sent to an FX trader with the intention that it be converted to $US.