Archive: March 2021

Every month we provide the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Post-Trade Distributed Ledger group with a global regulatory FinTech updater, the latest version of which can be found here.

By Ekin İnal and H. Alper Tüzün, İnal Ünver Attorney Partnership (in association with Norton Rose Fulbright in Turkey)

The Canadian securities regulators have published guidance on continuous disclosure obligations for reporting issuers dealing in digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokens, stablecoins, and other digital assets relying on blockchain technology (crypto assets).

Here we consider in what circumstances valuations in relation to Bitcoin will be upheld by Chinese courts if the parties to a transaction are in dispute about the sum payable or the quantification of money due.

On 12 March 2021, European Parliament rapporteur Johan van Overtveldt (BE, ECR) published his draft report on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) [link].

On 12 March 2021, European Parliament rapporteur Johan van Overtveldt (BE, ECR) published his draft report on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) [link].

On 24 February 2021, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council held a working group meeting dedicated to continue the review of the European Commission’s proposal for the regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA).