Crypto-assets, Blockchain Infrastructure And Crowdfunding Regulation - Big Steps In The EU Digital Finance Transformation

With a combination of finalisation of existing legislative proposals and publication of new ones, the EU has over the past month made significant advances in the regulation of 21^st century financial services in areas as diverse as crypto-assets, market infrastructures and crowdfunding. In three new Insights, Plesner's market-leading Fintech specialists analyse the new and proposed rules that will shape important parts of the EU financial regulatory framework for digital finance for years to come.

During the last month, the European Commission has unveiled proposals for a comprehensive legal framework for the regulation of markets in crypto-assets and a new and innovative pilot regime on distributed ledger market infrastructure. These proposals are part of the European Commission's new Digital Finance Strategy, a strategy launched on 24 September 2020 and seek to achieve greater legal certainty to the growing crypto-assets industry and general use of distributed