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BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, NXT Law
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Greenback Goes Digital: US CDBC coming soon?
Mixed messages in the US concerning Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) have made it difficult to predict whether the US Federal...
Mar 11, 20212 min read
Ripple - built for a CBDC?
Research shows that 80% of central banks worldwide are engaging in central bank digital currency (CBDC) related research, with banks...
Mar 5, 20212 min read
China makes it rain centralised digital currency
Winners of a government lottery to test the eCNY are singing their praises (paywalled) for the new national digital currency. As an...
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Mastercard, Visa and Bahama's CBDC
Digital currencies are entering to the Mastercard network and will soon be available globally to card holders. Mastercard recently...
Jan 29, 20212 min read
Digital currencies cruise into the Davos World Economic Forum discussion
Since 1971 the World Economic Forum has considered a broad range of matters impacting the global public interest. It does this by...
Jan 22, 20212 min read
French Central Bank hails first funds transaction using digital euro
The Banque de France has reportedly completed a pilot transaction with a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In The Bank announced the...
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...
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
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 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 2, 20202 min read
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OECD publishes insights on tax policy issues of digital currencies
The OECD and the G20 on 12 October 2020 published a report analysing different international tax policy implications of the taxation of...
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