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Australian Government Releases Initial Coin Offerings Issues Paper
Regulatory statements

Australian Government Releases Initial Coin Offerings Issues Paper

On 31 January 2019 the Government released an Issues Paper seeking feedback on initial coin offerings (ICOs) in Australia and the application of Australia’s regulatory framework to ICOs.

  • Legalico Team
    Legalico Team
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FMA guide on ICO and Tokens
Austria

FMA guide on ICO and Tokens

The Austrian Financial Markets Authority, FMA, published a complete guide on ICOs. It follows a prior analysis on its "2018-2023 strategy report" and similar efforts of other regulators. The FMA considers

  • Xavier Lavayssière
    Xavier Lavayssière
1 min read
France

Discussion Paper AMF on Oct. 22, 2017

The French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) published209 on October 22 a discussion paper regarding its analysis of the application of existing regulatory framework to ICOs and future regulatory options. Current Framework While most

  • Xavier Lavayssière
    Xavier Lavayssière
2 min read
Estonia

Estonian Supreme Court on virtual currencies

Estonian Supreme Court (Riigikohus) has discussed trade in virtual currencies (namely Bitcoins) in its 11 April 2016 decision No 3-2-1-75-15.226 The court found that trading in virtual currencies amounts to trading in

  • Coala
    Coala
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Singapore

Regulatory statements on Singapore

Press release on regulatory position on the offer of digital tokens, August 1, 2017144 On August 1st, 2017 , the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued a press release clarifying the conditions under which

  • Coala
    Coala
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PRC

Closing Miner Activities

In a most recent step, and as mentioned above, the authorities seem to also want to stop all mining activities. While, according to most recent news reports,174 the PBoC does not seem

  • Coala
    Coala
1 min read
European Union

European Union Statements nov 2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued two Statements on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) that have been since relayed by national european authorities. One statement is related to risks for investors

  • Xavier Lavayssière
    Xavier Lavayssière
2 min read
Germany

BaFin Statement

BaFin has issued a regulatory statement that classifies Bitcoin and similar virtual currencies as a financial instrument for purposes of the KWG. This was followed by BaFin's warnings to consumers of November 9,

  • Coala
    Coala
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PRC

Closing of Crypto-Exchanges

According to various news report169 of September 2017, the Office of Leading Group for Internet Financial Risk Special Rectification ("互联网金融风险专项整治工作领导小组办公室") released the relevant Notice on Rectification for Initial Coin Offerings. This

  • Coala
    Coala
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