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Overview on changes affecting Experienced Investor Funds ("EIFs"): Financial Services (Experienced Investor Fund) Regulations 2018 and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission's statement on EIFs investing in digital assets.

The crypto community in Gibraltar is celebrating the British Overseas Territory's recent removal from the FATF ("Financial Action Task Force") "Grey" List.

There is huge potential for DLT to cut costs and improve the effectiveness of KYC and AML compliance regulations for insurers.

Report cements Gibraltar as a jurisdiction of choice for Hedge Funds and their managers, backed up by leading lawyers from ISOLAS LLP.

Everyone's talking about Fintech – or so it seems.

Gibraltar has become the first jurisdiction to introduce a dedicated legal framework for prediction markets. The new regime provides regulatory certainty for operators, separates prediction markets from gambling and financial services, introduces licensing and market integrity requirements, and permits the use of cryptocurrencies, positioning Gibraltar as a leading jurisdiction for regulated digital innovation.

ISOLAS partner and thought leader on regulatory issues around digital assets, Joey Garcia, was invited to speak at a conference at the world-leading Wharton Business School.

ISOLAS' DLT Team, headed by Joey Garcia, one of only 12 global blockchain legal experts recognised by the leading legal directory Chambers & Partners, has recently contributed to a number of high profile ...

Defining the intangible, balancing innovation with the application of ‘good old' regulation, and managing crypto's emergence into the mainstream of financial services beyond its statistical systematic significance.

Whilst not much is guaranteed during this strange time, the people behind ranking law firms in the legal directories can...

At this time of year, I generally take the chance to bid a none-too-fond farewell to a cold, wet winter, acknowledge the promise of spring, and start to consider the prospect of the long, lazy summer...

The meteoric rise of FinTech in recent years has exposed us to jargon that many of us have perhaps struggled to understand, as words such as "blockchain" and "DLT" continue to dominate...

On 9th January 2019 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published their guidance on "Initial Coin Offerings" and "Crypto-Assets".

Data protection, cybersecurity and privacy – these are the defining talking points of our age. They also represent the three biggest challenges to business in the 21st century.

Asset classes continue to dominate the majority of investment conversations – but how have these changed over time? And what will asset classes look like going forward?

On 18 December 2019, the European Parliament's negotiating team reached a deal with the Council for the European Union on the implementation

In July 2017's edition of Offshore Investment Andrew Radnear wrote on "cyber insecurity". In it he gave a succinct description of cyber currencies, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT).