Feb 22, 2022 Coffee Break Catch Up with… me! By Meera Aswani I really enjoyed discussing the real estate sector in Gibraltar. In this instalment of the Coffee Break Catch Up series, you will see my...
Feb 21, 2022 The Emergence of Gibraltar Crypto Foundations By Aaron Payas, CFA Last year I wrote a piece on how Gibraltar Private Foundations can serve as “off-chain” support vehicles for decentralised crypto...
Feb 18, 2022 Tokenised Funds: A Solution to Liquidity Issues? By Hassans On 3 February 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its fourth annual statistical report on the...
Feb 18, 2022 Smart Contracts Saving IP? By Jerome Compson Jeremy Requena Following the introduction of the internet and social media, opportunities to exploit the ownership of digital content have expanded...
Feb 15, 2022 Gibraltar providing legal & regulatory certainty to creators of NFT collections By Aaron Payas, CFA NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are digital units on a blockchain that can represent ownership of an underlying asset, such as digital art....
Feb 14, 2022 Questions raised by the Metaverse By Jeremy Requena Jerome Compson In the first instance, the potential expansion of Intellectual Property (“IP”) usage brought about by the Metaverse is significant, and...
Feb 11, 2022 M&A Activity in 2022: The Wave of Momentum By James Noguera 2021 proved to be a record year in terms of both value and volume of completed M&A transactions (USD 5.9 trillion to be precise). Despite...
Feb 11, 2022 US tech giants coming under increasing pressure on data in EU By Selwyn Figueras The findings by French authorities that a company’s use of Google Analytics constitutes a breach of GDPR will send shivers down the spine...
Feb 10, 2022 Cybersecurity threats rising By Selwyn Figueras Last week, during a Hassans DLT webinar hosted by the Legal 500 I was asked, along with Anthony Provasoli and Aaron Payas, about...
Feb 09, 2022 Why “protecting” retail crypto investors has the opposite effect By Aaron Payas, CFA Bloomberg reported this week that the Irish Central Bank is “highly unlikely” to allow retail investment funds to hold crypto assets....
Feb 09, 2022 Gibraltar a natural gateway into South America? By Nigel Feetham KC 4 years ago with the looming threat of Brexit I set out my vision for a post Brexit Gibraltar-La Linea (in Southern Spain) financial hub....
Feb 08, 2022 Répondez s'il vous...now? By Tim Garcia In an age where immediate interactions are possible, is delay acceptable? As with most situations, the nuance of fact and circumstance...