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,…
New EBA uniform guidelines for the notification procedure of the PSD “limited networks” exclusion
In his blog post of 20 July, Christian Walz presented the outline of the guidelines put out for…
Act to Further Strengthen Investor Protection
The legislator has once again taken up the cause of investor protection; this time with a law to…
BaFin Consultation 13/2021: Directive for Sustainable Investment Funds
On 2 August 2021 – just in time for the entry into force of most of the amendments…
Transparency Register and Financial Information Act enters into force in August – Major changes in the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)
On 30.06.2021, the Act on the European Interconnection of Transparency Registers and the Implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/1153…
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…
EBA consults on guidelines on the limited network exclusion under PSD2
On July 15, 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a consultation draft on guidelines on the limited…
Bundestag Election 2021: Parties’ Positions on Payment Issues
On September 26, 2021, the elections to the 20th German Bundestag will take place. Even though we believe…
Bitcoin & Co. : Draft BMF letter on the income tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and tokens – Part 2
In Part 2 of this article on the draft BMF letter on the income tax treatment of cryptocurrencies…
Podcast | Discussing legal advice for blockchain startups with Alireza Siadat
In this podcast episode hosted by Blockrocket, Annerton partner Alireza Siadat and Sagar Barvaliya, Head of Venture Development…
Bitcoin & Co.: Draft BMF letter on the in-come tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and tokens – Part (1)
Initial Situation For some years now, Steffen has been reporting on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies in his…
Tokenised bank money – Further comments on MiCAR (2)
In my previous article, I discussed the problems arising from the methodology and definitions of the European Commission’s…
Crypto-assets market: France implements a regulatory framework in anticipation of the MiCA regulation
On 24 September 2020, the European Commission published a draft regulation on “crypto assets” known as the “MiCA…
Fee and contract amendment clauses in bank GTCs invalid | Consequences for the payment and banking practice
In its ruling of April 27th, 2021 (XI ZR 26/20), the “banking chamber” of the Federal High Court…