On June 28, 2023, the groundbreaking news was announced: the European Commission proposed the initiation of a digital Euro, taking a significant stride towards creating...

How report and motion No. 47/2025 rewrites the regulatory playbook and why proactive alignment today secures competitive advantages tomorrow.

Im europäischen Bankenabwicklungsrecht gilt der Grundsatz des » no creditor worse off « ( NCWO ).

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.

In Liechtenstein the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU/2016/679; GDPR) is generally directly applicable. As Liechtenstein is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA)...

As a business location, Liechtenstein combines access to the European single market with Swiss stability, regulatory openness to innovation with a high degree of legal certainty, and entrepreneurial freedom with an excellent reputation in the international financial environment. For FinTech companies seeking to grow in a dependable, modern and internationally connected jurisdiction, Liechtenstein therefore offers particularly compelling prospects.

In a move that is both evolutionary in its policy intent and revolutionary in its operational consequences, the European Union's reform of MiFIR and MiFID II—adopted at EU level...

In a jurisdiction that traditionally prides itself on the finely tuned equilibrium between investor confidentiality and regulatory integrity, the Liechtenstein Parliament's (Landtag's) near-unanimous...

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When the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published their Joint Guidelines on the assessment of the suitability of the members of the management body of issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and of crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).

The dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought forth a paradigm shift in technological advancements and their intersection with legal frameworks.

This article shall at first give a brief overview of the blockchain technology and a potential range of its applications under the premise of a decentralized technological environment.

Im Rahmen einer mehrteiligen Artikelserie werden zunächst wesentliche öffentlich-rechtliche Eckpunkte, daran anknüpfend einzelne zivilrechtliche Details des Regimes des TVTG, das seit 1.

The founder earmarks specific assets for the foundation, delineates its purpose, and identifies the beneficiaries.

Across Europe, and increasingly within the EEA perimeter more broadly, a familiar paradox has sharpened: while growth companies are expected to professionalise earlier...

Im Rahmen einer mehrteiligen Artikelserie werden zunächst wesentliche öffentlich-rechtliche Eckpunkte, daran anknüpfend einzelne zivilrechtliche Details des Regimes des TVTG, das seit 1. Jänner 2020 die Erbringung von VT-Dienstleistungen in Liechtenstein reglementiert, beleuchtet.

Data protection disputes rarely begin with spectacular cyberattacks. More often, they arise from something considerably more ordinary: an employee who fails to implement an objection to direct marketing, a customer record that is used for a purpose outside established procedures, or a camera installed for perfectly understandable security reasons that captures a neighbour, an employee, a visitor or a publicly accessible area.

The European market has, within remarkably few quarters, normalised the idea that a "payment" may be initiated in a user interface that looks like a wallet, settled in a token that is marketed as price-stable, and operationally executed by a CASP that—

The efficacy of an insurance policy is often revealed only in the aftermath of an unforeseen event or over an extended period.