August 2021

  Our Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Joe Schifano moderates the “Regulation in DeFi” panel featuring U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and U.S. CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz. DeFi services are maturing and beginning to disrupt traditional financial practices and services. The primary goal of making financial transactions less expensive and more secure, while also increasing access […]

By: Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs The need for next-generation technology to meet increasing regulatory challenges A number of high-profile cases of market manipulation in the wholesale commodity and energy sector in recent years have resulted in significant fines for those involved and prompted an increase in scrutiny of the sector by regulators.

Originally published in Forkast  By Vince Turcotte, Sales Director, Asia Pacific at Events Systems Hong Kong Right now, Hong Kong has the clearest and most detailed requirements for licensing of VASPs of any jurisdiction in Asia. It begins with the Securities and Futures Ordinance, a foundational document for the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). In

By: Vince Turcotte, Sales Director, APAC, Eventus To say that it has been an eventful year for cryptocurrency and virtual assets would be an understatement, and that’s as true on the regulatory side as it is for the markets themselves. In Asia, there has been a particularly strong push among governing regimes to define the steps

Originally published in Markets Media By Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Since the introduction of the EU’s REMIT regulation, many headline prosecutions have exposed weaknesses in the surveillance of market abuse in wholesale commodity and energy market trading. Prompted by severe punitive actions by global regulators against a number of the market’s participants,