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This currency would be offered in a digital form but not necessarily as a crypto coin and would complement but not replace the current offering of cash.

On 27 April 2021, the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched a digital bond issuance on a blockchain platform.

A surge of optimism has been sweeping through the crypto markets, driven by the belief that the US is on the verge of approving Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF).

In 2020, 278 tips were submitted via the whistleblower platform on the Austrian Financial Market Authorities (FMA) website.

For anyone who has so far given little or no thought to the taxation of their crypto assets, things could drastically change from autumn 2021. The EU Commission plans to monitor tax-payers who ...

The European Investment Fund recently signed the first six equity agreements with venture capital funds in Austria, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, ...

With regard to blockchain, Austria is currently looking to its neighbour Germany, where draft legislation for the "Blockchain Bond" has been proposed.

The DMA imposes a set of obligations on gatekeepers.

New York-based investment firm Tiger Global Management, focusing on private equity and public equity, is seeking USD 10bln for a record tech venture fund.

Austria's Financial Market Authority has announced that its has partially suspended its approval for KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH under the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets regulations.

Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (Digital Operational Resilience Act – "DORA") entered into law on 17 January 2023. DORA will not only apply to most regulated financial institutions...

The European Union Intellectual Property Office has launched the first ever European Blockchain platform to better serve intellectual property offices and their users.

Last year the EU finalised its pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The DLT Pilot Regime introduces an EU regulatory sandbox...

UNIDROIT, one of the main global legal standard setters, is currently developing a common international approach with respect to certain private law aspects of digital assets.

Whenever Bitcoin starts an upward rally, discussion about its regulation and warnings from regulatory authorities about the risky nature of crypto-assets in general starts again.

The new government promises great things for start-ups and for blockchain users.

With credit institutions still reluctant to provide financing to start-ups, many companies are looking for new ways to raise funds. Others are exploring ways to integrate new technology..