Mar 9, 20222 min read
Swiss city makes crypto legal tender
Switzerland's eighth largest city, Lugarno, has announced that it will make bitcoin legal tender, allowing its citizens to pay for public...
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, NXT Law
Switzerland's eighth largest city, Lugarno, has announced that it will make bitcoin legal tender, allowing its citizens to pay for public...
The Ukrainian Government has announced that it will be accepting cryptocurrency donations to assist with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict....
The volume of trades involving Rouble and Tether (as well as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies) have skyrocketed in the past few days,...
A new bill recently tabled to U.S. Congress has sought to provide much needed legislative clarification on stablecoins. Briefly,...
Meta (formerly Facebook) made serious waves in the mainstream when it announced a new stablecoin in 2019, to be backed by a basket of...
American financial services institution Paypal is looking to launch its own stablecoin. Evidence of this was found within the source code...
The Presidents Working Group on Financial Markets, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance...
Te Pūtea Matua, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Reserve Bank) has called for public opinion regarding the issuance of a Central Bank...
The US Federal Reserve has shown an intention to provide guidance on the potential issuance of an Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)....
HSBC, a multinational British Bank with total assets of ~$3 trillion, has praised CBDCS as the new form of digital money while...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has anted up in his stance against cryptocurrencies, this time going...
During a recent hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has continued to...
The Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act (Bill), introduced by Rep. Don Beyer, proposes sweeping reforms to digital...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) recently released a Consultative Document on...
Mixed messages in the US concerning Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) have made it difficult to predict whether the US Federal...
Research shows that 80% of central banks worldwide are engaging in central bank digital currency (CBDC) related research, with banks...
Not only has Canada listed one of the first Bitcoin and Ether exchange traded funds the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian bank VersaBank...
The UK is unveiling crypto consultations in quick succession. Shortly after the consultation into whether digital currency promotions...
