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BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, NXT Law
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Dec 15, 20202 min read
Digital Asset Custody: Fidelity Flourishing and Australian guidance absent
Fidelity Investments, one of the world's largest financial services providers, has recently been making major strides in developing their...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
Suggestion & Surveillance: Talk of Chinese CBDC scares VIPs from Macau
Macau, a special administrative region of China with a gaming industry seven(!) times larger than that of Las Vegas, has been rattled by...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Libra seizes the ‘day’ with rebranding
The launch of Libra back in June 2019 drew swathes of attention as the Libra Association attempted to create a compliant digital currency...
Nov 27, 20202 min read
Fake zoom invite leads to $8m being stolen from Aussie Hedge Fund
On Monday, the Australian Financial Review reported that Levitas Capital, a Sydney-based hedge find, was the target of a fake Zoom invite...
Nov 27, 20202 min read
China challenges G20 to charge on with CBDC co-operation
Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping urged G20 meeting attendees to support digital currency and advised that member countries should...
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Getting paid with bitcoin: BitPay launches a new payroll service
Bitcoin payments provider BitPay recently announced a new service: “BitPay Send”, a neat new way for businesses to pay employees,...
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Australia better hop to it to keep up with a Digital Euro in the race to CBDCs
In a global race to digitise national currencies, the EU has kept good on its earlier promises to explore implementing the CBDC.
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Swift Swiss laws bring blockchain benefits and regulatory certainty
A new set of Swiss laws on blockchain and distributed ledger technology was recently announced (DLT Laws) and approved by the Swiss...
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Punishing a ponzi scheme that used bitcoin as bait
The US District Court for the District of Colorado has entered a judgment against Venture Capital Investments for misappropriation of funds
Nov 10, 20201 min read
Demand for digital currencies offered by PayPal to be significantly bolstered
PayPal reinforces importance of digital currencies and the inevitability of CBDCs in recent earnings call.
Nov 10, 20202 min read
Nov 8, 20201 min read
Senator Bragg envisions a blockchain future
Speaking at the Future of Financial Services 2020 conference this week, Australian Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has emphasised the...
Nov 3, 20203 min read
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Nov 1, 20201 min read
Australia Initial Public Offering accepting digital currency
The first known IPO (Initial Public Offering) to accept digital currency has been announced in Australia. Melbourne-based West Coast...
Oct 30, 20201 min read
Head of Regulation at NYSE heads to Andreesen Horowitz
Chief Regulatory Officer at the New York Stock Exchange Anthony Albanese has announced a move to Andreesen Horowitz's crypto team
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Federal Budget 2020-21: FinTech focus
We're highlighting the key measures supporting startups, FinTech and blockchain in the 2020-21 Federal Budget released on 6 October 2020
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