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Legal Update: Changes to the AML Landscape for Crypto Assets

Concern around the use of cryptoassets in connection with financial crime has intensified in recent years. A January report by...

Tenure-Based Voting: Is it Worth Trying?

Short-termism is currently a corporate governance concern. Data provides that the average holding period of public companies has been...

Time’s up for Big Tech? — moving towards antitrust reform and regulation

For years, academics, policymakers and activists alike have been calling for harsher regulation on “Big Tech” such as Google, Facebook,...

Regulatory Sandboxes: A new future for FinTech?

It’s no surprise that the Financial Technology (FinTech) sector has been booming over the last few years. Driven by deep pockets in...

Cryptocurrency Regulation – Emerging Trends

With COVID 19 on the horizon, the world has witnessed an increase in the adoption of technology in all facets of human life. This has...

Revised FCPA guidelines – Just a Confirmation of Status Quo or New Factors to be Considered?

If you look at the current ten highest fines imposed under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 as amended, Title 15 U.S.C. Sections...

"Fonds de Pérennité": A Viable Substitute to the Dutch Poison Pill in French Unsolicited Takeovers?

Over the past few weeks, the so-called “Dutch poison pill” made headlines with Veolia Environment’s unsolicited takeover bid of its rival...

Digitising Taxation

Abstract This Article is an effort to familiarize the non-tax business readers with a leading change in the international taxation arena...

Evolution of Leveraged Buyouts: A New Era or Back to Square One?

A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a method of acquiring a company where the deal is financed by a combination of equity and debt and the debt...

Credit Default Swaps: Legal Gambling or Clear Market Manipulation?

Credit default swaps (CDSs), despite being relatively simple-to-understand financial instruments by definition, have become a contentious...

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