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On July 27, 2018, the Justice BN Srikrishna committee, formed by the Indian government in August 2017 with the goal of introducing a comprehensive data protection law in India ...

This joint paper with Chuo Sogo LPC analyses the regulatory framework of crypto assets in India and Japan. While the Japanese regulatory framework has evolved in a structured manner, the Indian ecosystem has emerged from a patchwork of signals by tax authorities, financial regulators, and the judiciary, creating operational/compliance risk for platforms providing crypto services and exposing users to platform failures and market abuse, underscoring the need to adapt elements from Japan's model...

In today's increasingly connected digital world, all organisations and individuals are at risk from cyber-related threats.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) can be complex, time and cost intensive. While there have been discussions around inflow of technology in executing M&A deals, we wait to witness a substantive shift.

Aparajita, Partner at Ikigai Law and Amol Kulkarni, Research Director at CUTS published an op-ed in Mint titled "Our open network for digital commerce must win trust". Key points they make...

Blockchain gained popularity about seven years ago, as the underlying platform powering Bitcoin, a popular virtual cryptocurrency.

Deep into the first month of the new year, 2022 promises to be a dynamic year with significant growth opportunities in the Indian industry.

A recent order passed by the Delhi High Court in the case of Ferid Allani v. Union of India and Ors., proved to be a radical decision on the jurisprudence related to patentability of computer software programs ...

September 2023 was another notable month for the fintech sector.

AK and Partners organized a Digital Lending Roundtable with speakers from across the globe on April 30, 2021.

With growing importance and widespread adoption of Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple among many others, Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) have become very popular over the last few years.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has rolled out a new compliance framework that will redefine how India secures every digital transaction from UPI payments to credit card swipes.

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the computer-related inventions demonstrating ‘technical effect' or ‘technical contribution' ...

From dismissing cryptocurrencies as assets ‘based on thin air' (in 2019) to championing their potential to ‘go to the moon' (in 2024), Trump's crypto U-turn created waves in the US election cycle.

Paving the way for the tech industry, blockchain, possessing the capability to transform lives, has revolutionized the dynamic tech and development world in terms of its operation mechanisms.

In just over three decades of the world wide web's existence, over half of the world is now online; with the recent pandemic only augmenting it multifold.

Despite the global market slow-down owing to the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian fin-tech sector has done exceedingly well this past quarter.