Overview NFTs & Intellectual Property Law
Licensing of NFTs Licensing contract law is an important point to be regulated if content protected by intellectual…
Introduction of the EU DLT Pilot Regime
In September 2020, the European Commission adopted its Digital Finance Package, an initiative aiming at strengthening the EU’s…
Crowdfunding Regulation (ECSPR) and tied agent: does it fit together and if so, how?
The Crowdfunding Regulation (ECSPR – European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation) has now been in force since November 2021,…
Revised regulatory technical standards on strong customer authentication and common and secure communication under PSD2
Revised RTS on SCA & CSC under PSD2 On 5 April 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published…
Financial services – The same word, but not the same meaning under regulatory law and civil law
What are financial services? What are financial services? One might think that this question can be answered unambiguously.…
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) & Blockchain: Whitepaper published by the Luxembourg regulator
On 21 January 2022, the Luxembourg financial sector supervisory authority, the Commission de surveillance du secteur financier (“CSSF”),…
5th anniversary of PayTechLaw! Happy Birthday & Cin-Cin!
Five years of burning keyboards, creativity, passion and red-hot topics from the areas of FinTech, payment, banking, crypto,…
Anti-Money Laundering 3.0: The Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, AMLA and the 6th AML Directive
Abstract: The EU Commission has published its ambitious plan to reform EU anti-money laundering legislation. What does the…
Crowdfunding Regulation and lending platforms – Hooray, no fronting bank needed anymore!
In a previous blog post, we have presented the Crowdfunding Regulation (Regulation on “European Business CrowdfundingService Providers“, (EU)…
Some personal thoughts on women in the fintech industry
March 8th, International Women’s Day, has recently been made a public holiday in Berlin, Germany. This allows me…