Exploring the EU AI Act
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act entered into force on 1 August 2024 and will be broadly applicable after two years, following a phased implementation process.
The Impact of MiCA on Cross-Border Operations for Non-EU Crypto Businesses
The world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology knows no borders. As crypto markets continue to expand globally, they attract a growing number of businesses offering a wide range of services.
MiCA and the Cyprus Crypto-Assets Legal Framework
The EU Council which represents all 27 EU member states, has unanimously approved earlier this month the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
The Importance of the SEC v Ripple Case
In late 2020, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Ripple, a San Francisco-based company that offers a cross-border payment infrastructure, and two of its executives, with conducting an unregistered securities offering of $1.3bn by selling their cryptocurrency XRP.
Smart Contracts and the New Reality
New market and new reality In front of the heavy bookshelves of the city’s law offices that store hard copies of the All-England Law Reports since 1890 to date, lawyers are talking with young people, clients and experts, about science-fiction computer-geek terms like “blocks” and “distributed” and “permissioned ledgers”, “hashing” and “mining”, “full” and “half…