Jenny Cieplak and Mike Gill are attorneys for Crowell & Moring LLP, a global law firm that specializes in regulatory and corporate legal issues. In this piece, Cieplak and Gill explore the convergence ...

A distributed ledger is a database that serves the purpose of recording various transactions. Similar to the way e-transactions and digital banking apps have transformed the way consumers spend money, ...

A new report from financial giant Japan Exchange Group (JPX) contends that distributed ledgers will work "better" when applied to capital markets if third parties are involved. The finding comes from ...

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When people interact with each other, for example via financial transactions, sharing legal documents or trading through supply chains, they need a high level of confidence that the data recording ...

EU ambassadors today endorsed the provisional political agreement, reached on 24 November, between the Council Presidency and the European Parliament's negotiators on a pilot regime for market ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a phrase that is neither legal nor technical. Nonetheless, it is increasingly employed in talks concerning the future of finance and its regulation. Decentralization; ...

Bitcoin may have had the most successful marketing campaign of any web technology in recent years. But now there’s a new buzzword making waves throughout the financial industry: “distributed ledger.” ...