Bird & Bird’s marketing leading reputation for “Data” has been recognised in Who’s Who Legal’s annual analysis of Data Privacy & Protection, Data Security, Information Technology and Telecoms & Media with more ...

2020 has been one of the most challenging years in living memory, as governments, businesses and individuals have had to adapt to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The enforced global lockdowns have put a ...

Czech Bird & Bird transactional team has assisted KB SmartSolutions, s.r.o. with strategic investment into the FinTech company Lemonero s.r.o. through the acquisition of shares in its parent company MonkeyData ...

On 24 September 2020, the European Commission unveiled its Digital Finance Package.

Our Polish office have authored a section of the recently published ‘How to do Fintech in Poland’ report. In this report Sławomir Szepietowski, Marta Stanisławska, and Kuba Ruiz outline the regulatory issues ...

The German Federal Ministry for Justice and Consumer Protection and German Federal Ministry of Finance recently published their draft for the proposed “act to introduce electronic securities”.

The fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive (EU) 2018/843) came into effect on 1 January 2020. Since then many of the amendments to the German Anti-Money Laundering Act have been discussed without much ...

On 2 June, the Commission launched a public consultation on its forthcoming Digital Services Act plus a New Competition Tool and is requesting feedback on roadmaps including one on ex ante regulatory instruments ...

Especially in view of the crisis resulting from the Corona pandemic, the question arises: What happens to tokens in insolvency, especially if they are held in safekeeping by a service provider for his customers?

BaFin has published "Guidelines on applications for authorisation for crypto custody business".