Archive:June 6, 2018

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Dubai Fintech Goes Global
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Understanding the Effect of Wyoming’s Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Legislation

Dubai Fintech Goes Global

By Jonathan Lawrence

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has signed a FinTech Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with professional services company Accenture. Under the MoU, FinTech Hive at DIFC – the first financial technology accelerator in the Middle East region – will collaborate with Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Labs in New York, London and Hong Kong, to share resources and knowledge on research and trends in FinTech. In line with the DIFC Growth Strategy 2024 and Dubai Vision 2021, FinTech Hive gives financial companies access to technologies to support their digital transformation while providing innovators with access to potential clients and investors.

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Understanding the Effect of Wyoming’s Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Legislation

By Carl E. VolzEden L. RohrerJudith E. RinearsonJeremy M. McLaughlin and Daniel S. Cohen

March was a busy month in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space for the Wyoming state government.  The legislature passed, and the governor signed, five bills that many in the industry view as favorable to blockchain and cryptocurrency businesses.  While the bills provide some beneficial clarity in this space and may attract businesses to the state, the scope and effect of some of the bills is limited.  Accordingly, it is important that industry participants fully understand what the new Wyoming laws address, and, perhaps more importantly, what they do not.

Please see our latest thinking here for a full discussion of Wyoming’s new blockchain and cryptocurrency legislation.

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