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On December 19, 2024, Luxembourg adopted Blockchain Law IV, a landmark legislative move aimed at strengthening the legal framework for blockchain in the financial sector.

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier ("CSSF") has updated its FAQ – Crypto Assets – Undertakings for collective investments (the "FAQ") to clarify how UCITS...

In the last decade the banking industry has made tremendous efforts to digitalise its services.

Recently I attended the Future of Fintech Conference, where a major theme was the disruption of the financial services industry by clouds, machine learning, blockchain, and other technologies.

On 29 November 2021, the CSSF provided guidance to the industry with respect to virtual assets, by publishing a Communiqué (the "Statement") and frequently asked questions for...

On 3 October 2023, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS announced it had concluded negotiations on a multilateral convention ("MLC") implementing the Pillar 2 subject to...

The Financial Sector Supervisory Authority (CSSF) has issued guidance on the rules governing investment in digital assets by Luxembourg funds, clarifying that alternative investment funds may invest in them, ...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may suffer from an uninteresting name, but don't be fooled: they represent the backbone of most companies, a frame that supports daily interactions.

The crypto market experienced another resilience test over the weekend, following Donald Trump's remarks on China. As stock markets closed worldwide, volatility shifted to crypto markets.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on markets in crypto-assets ("MICAR") will enter into application...

Luxembourg has gradually deployed the use of distributed ledger or database technology, on which blockchain is based, since the very early stages of its development, with the outright intention of positioning the country ...

Living in the present means we're perpetually at the peak of technology, sitting on a pyramid of past achievements. In the 1950s credit cards became plastic miracles of payment, an apex of FinTech..

A blockchain (also called distributed ledger technology or DLT) is essentially a permanent and immutable record of transactions – in real time – within a network.

On 19 April 2023, the EU Parliament announced the approval of its negotiating mandate for three of the four proposed pillars of the much-anticipated new EU Anti-Money...

The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (EU 2023/1114, MiCAR), which entered into force in June 2023, aims to create a broad EU regulatory framework applicable to crypto-assets...

1954 marked a milestone in the history when, in Edina, Minnesota, construction began on the first-ever modern-era shopping mall.

The law of 22 January 2021 (the "2021 Law") modernises Luxembourg's legal framework on the issuance of dematerialised securities by expressly confirming the possibility to use distributed ledger technology.