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Online resource provides overview of delegated acts, technical standards, and guidelines for cryptoasset businesses.

Latham & Watkins has launched the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation Tracker, a new online resource that provides cryptoasset businesses with critical information to help navigate MiCA — a robust and detailed regulatory framework for cryptoassets.

Since MiCA was first published in

Paycheck advance products that are deemed consumer loans under the CFPB’s new proposal would be subject to increased disclosure and regulatory protections.

By Parag Patel, Barrie VanBrackle, and Deric Behar

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently proposed an interpretive rule titled “Consumer Credit Offered to Borrowers in Advance of Expected Receipt of

The case involves substantive litigation that could yield important legal principles for the treatment of decentralised projects.

By Dominic Geiser, Simon Hawkins, Sam Maxson, and Truman Mak

Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAO) are unique structures that operate autonomously in accordance with preset rules, utilising a blockchain and coordinated through a distributed consensus model.

The UK’s consultation on deregulating commercial agents could have knock-on impacts on payment services and create regulatory divergence from the EU.

By Christian McDermott, Brett Carr, and Grace Erskine

On 16 May 2024, the UK government launched a consultation into the deregulation of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 (the Commercial Agents