For the first time, the Danish FSA has considered, whether an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) was subject to financial regulation. In this specific case, the Danish FSA has considered: if the ICO was subject to the prospective legal regime; and whether the token was subject to e-money regulation.

Welcome to the July – September edition of our UK & EU data protection bulletin. The highlights of this bulletin are: The ICO publishes updated guidance on data transfers and the European Commission launches its adoption of its adequacy decision on Japan. The ICO has launched a call for evidence on creating a “regulatory sandbox” […]

Partner Simon Shooter summarises the NISR and what DSPs need to know ahead of the deadline of November 1, 2018. The regulations and who is impacted Some of you will be familiar with the NISR (Network and Information Systems Regulations), which came into force on 9 May this year and which have been designed to prevent critical national […]

The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road is a cross-continental development strategy conceptualized by the Chinese government in 2013. The initiative was then known as the One Belt and One Road Initiative (OBOR), and has since been re-framed as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to achieve better connectivity and […]

International law firm Bird & Bird supported the latest Energy Efficiency Trends report published by EEVS Insight and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which shows the commissioning of projects involving smart building technologies has risen by almost a third in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the 2017 average.