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On March 9, McCarthy Tétrault and IP Osgoode jointly hosted a symposium titled Effective IP Strategy to Drive Innovation in the Financial Services Sector.

Bitcoins are a digital currency obtained when computers compete to solve mathematical problems and the winning ‘miner' is rewarded with a block of new Bitcoins.

Are you considering accepting cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin, Litecoin) from your customers as payment in lieu of traditional government-issued currency? If so, you are not alone.

The new federal tax gap report identifies key areas of tax non-compliance or non-payment.

The cryptocurrency world is replete with vagaries and uncertainties.

The prospect of central banks issuing central bank digital currency has garnered further attention during the COVID-19 outbreak, which has underlined some of the disadvantages and risks of transacting with physical cash.

As digital assets and blockchain technology reshape the world of finance, Canadian banks, non-bank lenders, and their legal advisers are confronting significant complexities.

While 2018 began with prices for cryptoassets like bitcoin and ether at or just off record highs, it appears that the year will end with prices down 75% or more.

It may be hard to imagine a world without cryptocurrencies, yet Bitcoin was first launched only a little over a decade ago.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are burgeoning and disruptive areas.

Cryptocurrency is not necessarily a "security" under Canadian securities law.

In the aftermath of recent major disruptions in the crypto industry, securities regulators in Canada have again raised the bar for unregistered crypto asset trading platforms (CTPs)...

On January 16, 2020, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) published Staff Notice 21-327 Guidance on the Application of Securities Legislation to Entities Facilitating the Trading...

Against the backdrop of recent insolvencies of a number of crypto asset trading platforms, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Staff Notice 21-332 to introduce important new investor...

In March 2017, the European Commission issued a public consultation document on Fintech. The goal of the European Commission (EC) document is to further the objective of a digital single market within Europe.

On June 18, 2019, Facebook released its white paper (the "White Paper") revealing the details of its new cryptocurrency Libra.

As we highlighted in our last quarterly Fintech update in 2023, a new regulatory framework under the Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA) will soon affect all retail payment service providers...