What does the Twitter hack mean for regulation of cryptocurrencies?
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has always endorsed bitcoins. Dorsey has also founded a payments company called Square Crypto to initiate development of cryptocurrencies and spread awareness of what he...
View ArticleDeciphering Schrems II
Paper available for download at- Deciphering-Schrems-II-_W-investmentDownload 1. INTRODUCTION The case of Data Protection Commissioner (“DPC”) v. Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems...
View ArticleWash-Trading Practices in Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Recently, the Ontario Securities Commission (‘OSC’) accused CoinSquare, a Canadian crypto-trading platform for “Wash-Trading”. According to the OSC, Coinsquare wash traded , between July 17, 2018 and...
View ArticleE-Privacy advisory by EU in consideration of Covid 19
European regulatory authorities have always been active in restructuring privacy guidelines. Personal data has become one of the major source of revenue for many companies and to keep it from being...
View ArticleOffice of Comptroller of the Currency allows crypto custody by national banks...
Cryptocurrencies legislations have always been in an evolving stage in the United States (‘US’). The US has been supportive of cryptocurrencies and decentralised ledger technology (‘DLT’) based...
View ArticleBlockchain roadmap for Australia- What can India learn?
The Government of Australia has always had a positive attitude towards cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Earlier this year, the Australian Supreme Court had also ruled on the classification of...
View ArticleIndia’s Blockchain Framework -Where do we stand right now?
Recently, Prime Minister Modi in his address at the India Ideas Summit by the US-India Business Council highlighted blockchain to be an ‘opportunity in frontier technology’ and the country being a...
View ArticleWhat is DeFi and what it implies?
DeFi, or simply put decentralised finance is based on blockchain to provide a transparent ecosystem for an open and a decentralised banking. The first-ever cryptocurrency, bitcoin was invented amidst...
View ArticleRUSSIA’S LAW ‘ON DIGITAL FINANCIAL ASSETS’
Introduction The State of Duma adopted the ‘On digital financial assets, digital currency and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation’ bearing no. 419059-7 (‘the Bill’) in...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Security Endpoint Threat Report 2019– India’s Cyber-security...
Recently, Microsoft released its Security Endpoint Threat Report 2019 that covered statistics on cyber threats and resilience around the Asia-Pacific (‘APAC’) territory. It captured data from...
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