Blockchain rules! Blockchain applications are and will remain the focus of our ongoing legal advice. GDPR compliance can represent a major hurdle to overcome (keyword: Privacy by Design). Arthur Stadler and Jacqueline Bichler dealt with the topic "Blockchain technology [...]
On 10 March 2020, the ZFR Conference 2020 will take place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). For one day, the conference will deal with current topics related to capital market law. The following program highlights* [...]
Urim Bajrami, attorney at law, is part of the Austrian delegation flying to Brussels on Thursday, 18 February 2020, to sign the founding documents of the European Esports Federation, which aims to better connect the national esports federations and [...]
The anonymity of virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. enables their potential misuse for criminal purposes. For example, Europol recently helped Spain break up a criminal organization that supplied cryptocurrencies against dirty cash through the use of crypto-ATMs. Until [...]
The 5th Money Laundering Directive (EU) 2018/843, which once again tightens the EU's AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism) network, came into force in July 2018 and had to be transposed by the Member states by 10 January [...]
On 5 March 2020 the 'Value of Bitcoin Symposium' will take place at Palais Esterhazy in Vienna. This symposium is the continuation of the (highly regarded) Value of Bitcoin Conference, which was first held in Munich in 2019 and [...]
BREXIT & TRADEMARKS? On 31 January 2020 the United Kingdom will leave the EU. This raises a number of questions about European trademark law. Veronika Krickl and Arthur Stadler explain in this article which trademark protection regulations will apply [...]
This year the Federal Ministry of the Interior is hosting the largest Blockchain Investigators Conference in the German-speaking world. It will take place from 22 to 24 January 2020. The conference promises an exciting program with speakers from Switzerland, [...]
Anyone who deals with the topics of blockchain, digital assets or virtual currencies for the first time will quickly be confronted with terminology that all sounds somewhat similar: To describe the same thing, for example, one could call it [...]
