In Liechtenstein, the token has been legally defined by the Token and TT Service Provider Act (TVTG). According to the TVTG, a token is information on a TT system (blockchain) that (i) can represent...

Als weiterer Teil unserer Newsletterreihe zur Verordnung über Märkte für Kryptowerte (MiCA) behandeln wir das unter MiCA geltende Marktortprinzip, das den räumlichen Anwendungsbereich definiert.

The Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCAR) and the Regulation on a Pilot Project Regime for DLT-based Market Infrastructures (DLT Pilot Regime) form the core of the EU's Digital Finance Strategy.

When the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") released its Final Report on Guidelines for the criteria on the assessment of knowledge and competence under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation ("MiCA") in July 2025.

The recent turmoil surrounding FTX and Alameda has once again drawn public attention to the crypto industry and, in particular, provided new fertile ground for criticism of the industry as a whole.

In a move that marks a significant milestone in the regulation of the rapidly evolving crypto-asset sector, the European Banking Authority has unveiled its final Risk-Based Supervision Guidelines.

Liechtenstein ist eine besonders krypto-freundliche Jurisdiktion in Europa: Schon 2020 hat Liechtenstein mit dem TVTG aka „Blockchain-Gesetz" eine umfassende...

Liechtenstein is a particularly crypto-friendly jurisdiction in Europe: As early as 2020, Liechtenstein implemented the TVTG aka "Blockchain Law", a comprehensive...

The European Union's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is not simply another acronym in the alphabet soup of financial regulation...

In a significant development, approximately 50 countries, including Switzerland, have committed to an expanded scope of international automatic exchange of information (AIA)...

Hardly any other European financial centre has managed, within such a compact geographic perimeter, to translate the ever-accelerating OECD agenda...

Compliance officers who skim regulatory updates only for headline-worthy acronyms may have overlooked three slim yet densely reasoned answers that the European Securities and Markets Authority published in mid-June 2025.

Hardly any other micro-jurisdiction has displayed a comparable legislative velocity in the field of international tax cooperation as the Principality of Liechtenstein...

Readers familiar with the accelerated regulatory tempo that has characterised the European crypto-asset landscape since the adoption of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation ("MiCA") will have noticed that, on 26 March 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") supplemented the primary legislation with a 35-page set of Guidelines on the assessment of suitability and on the format of the periodic statement for portfolio-management activities.

As MiCAR's full authorisation regime for crypto-asset service providers ("CASPs") settles across the EU/EEA, the single date that defines strategy for every TVTG-registered firm in Liechtenstein...

IoT payments enable transactions through connected devices like smartwatches, smart refrigerators, and even smart cars.

And Why Liechtenstein Is Emerging As The European Economic Area (EEA) Gateway For U.S. Founders, Investors And Digital-Asset Businesses

From VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) to CASP (Crypto Asset Service Provider) – on October 10, 2022, the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs...

Liechtenstein is moving to transpose Directive (EU) 2024/927 ("AIFMD II") and to operationalize the revamped ELTIF (European Long Term Investment Fund) regime (Regulation (EU) 2023/606...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s March 2026 interpretation on the application of federal securities laws to certain crypto assets is not merely another incremental statement in an already crowded field of digital-asset commentary.