PayTechTalk #76 – DLT Pilot Regime – EU establishes a regulatory sandbox for the digital securities market
The DLT Pilot Regime is an EU-wide regulatory sandbox for market infrastructures based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).…
EBC Panel Recording: How to Navigate Legal Landscapes in Digital Assets
European Blockchain Convention 2022 PayTechTalk host Alireza Siadat (Lawyer & Partner at Annerton) was at the European Blockchain…
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…
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…
MiCAR – Europe-wide regulation of the crypto space
With the proposal for the “Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation” (“MiCAR”) a uniform, Europe-wide regulation of crypto-assets is now…
Infographic: Crypto assets in domestic and global context
In the past, crypto assets were mostly not defined uniformly and sometimes even completely differently. A first global…
PayTechTalk 54 – Blockchain and crypto regulation from the UK and the German perspective
In today’s episode of PayTechTalk, I talk to crypto and Blockchain experts James Burnie (gunnercooke) and Alireza Siadat…
101 on how to distinguish between crypto assets and e-money
Crypto assets and e-money are very similar. Both are usually issued by private entities and serve as a…
PayTechTalk 53: AMLD5 as a start for crypto regulation
In today’s episode of PayTechTalk, I’ll be talking to my colleagues Charles Krier and Alireza Siadat. Together we will…