Sean Murphy (UK)

Every month we provide the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Post-Trade Distributed Ledger group with a global regulatory FinTech updater, the latest version of which can be found here.

Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group is composed of over 40 prominent market infrastructure stakeholders whose shared vision of the use of distributed ledger

Continually increasing payment volumes, the advent of new payment technologies and infrastructure, and continued change in consumer spending habits has seen the payments ecosystem grow exponentially in recent years. This has fuel led a raft of new providers, increased mergers and acquisitions activity, and expanded payments related regulation for the industry to navigate.

We invite

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the services of a Bitcoin exchange in exchanging Bitcoin for a traditional currency is exempt from VAT on the basis of the ‘currency’ exemption (Skatteverket v David Hedqvist Case C-264/14).

VAT is imposed across the European Union Member States. To date, there

Norton Rose Fulbright’s global cryptocurrency team has produced a global legal and regulatory guide to cryptocurrencies.

The guide will be issued in a series of chapters, published monthly:

  • Introduction to cryptocurrencies;
  • The legal nature of cryptocurrency;
  • Insuring cryptocurrency risks;
  • Taxation of cryptocurrencies;
  • Cryptocurrency litigation risks;
  • Taking security over cryptocurrency;
  • Cryptocurrencies crime and compliance; and
  • Regulation of cryptocurrencies.