On 24 November 2021, the European Parliament announced that it had reached agreement with the Council on a pilot scheme based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The project follows the ‘sandbox’ approach, allowing for temporary derogations from certain requirements under the EU’s financial services legislation. Among other things the Parliament’s announcement mentions that negotiators have … Continue Reading
On 6 October 2021, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) published a news item on its website drawing attention to the fact that from 1 October 2021 regulatory reporting for investment firms, fund managers and investment holdings had changed in a number of important areas. The changes were due to the entry into … Continue Reading
On 23 September 2020 the European Commission published its long-awaited draft regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA), with its accompanying annex and a draft regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLTR). The proposals, which are part of the broader Digital Finance Strategy package, are the first European-level legislative … Continue Reading
