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03 Oct 2022
This piece was co-authored by Sunay Radia, partner, McDermott, Will & Emery. Fintech encompasses a broad spectrum of emerging businesses operating at the intersection of financial services and technology including neobanks, digital brokers, e-money institutions, crypto businesses and more. While the sector has outperformed the general market fo...
04 Apr 2022
The metaverse represents a paradigm shift in how people will experience the internet. However, it is still not well understood and significant topics relating to it have not been explored, including how legal concepts in the real world will operate when transitioned to a virtual world. This article aims to begin an exploration of those issues. It ...
04 Oct 2021
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are organisations whose rules and governance (the parameters by which they operate and stakeholders interact) are encoded in a blockchain (i.e., in a computer program rather than set out in a typical paper based governance document such as a shareholder’s agreement). As these rules are set out in a blo...
09 Aug 2021
Within the crypto community, Binance is ubiquitous. It is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with twenty-four hour trading volumes (at time of writing) of approximately $19.3 billion, dwarfing its competitors. By comparison, its US based rival Coinbase had trading volumes of approximately $2.7 billion during this period. Although undeniab...