Despite its name, the global stablecoin market has been far from stable in recent years. In response, regulators and governments across...

Last year, NFTs were everywhere and IP lawyers across the country were grappling to understand their potential impact on IP rights. This...

It is a good time to check in on the financial regulation lawyer in your life, following a deluge of regulatory updates as the UK sails...

February this year saw the Bank of England and HM Treasury declare that it is “likely” that a digital pound will be issued in future and...

As the world continues to be fixated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the High Court has recently found that copyright does not...

How far would you go to get your hands on billions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency?  Dr Craig White, who also claims to be Satoshi...

In a significant step, the Bank of England and HM Treasury have declared that it is "likely" that a digital pound—the catchy moniker for...

Back at the very beginning of 2020 Covid-19 still hadn't been designated a pandemic, Brexit still wasn't quite 'done' and you could start...

On 15 September 2022 the long-awaited transition to a 'proof-of-stake' consensus mechanism on Ethereum—referred to as 'The Merge'—finally...

In the introduction to its recent consultation on Digital Assets, the Law Commission states that it is proposing few changes to the law,...

On Monday 8 August the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado...

Until not so long ago, lawyers like me would have to trawl the internet for a whispered mention of crypto from a regulator, and it took...

Last week the PRA published a letter directed to the CEOs of banks and PRA-designated investment firms regarding their exposures to...

In a new report published last week, the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England began formalising its position on the...

The FCA has published a consultation paper setting out its approach to strengthening its financial promotion rules for high risk...

What feels several lifetimes ago in the world of crypto, in July 2020, HM Treasury published a consultation on bringing cryptoassets into...