...s in the most professional way, while always minding personal preferences."* This three-day event brought closer together traders, investors, affiliates, IBs, fintech companies and brokers from across China and the world. With the rapidly growing financial market here in China, this event provided the know-how about what’s moving the markets via a range of free seminars and an exhibition of f...

...a point of view, that after the last Chinese elections, XI Jinping, who was re-elected as the President and General Secretary of the Communist party, may implement changes in cryptocurrency regulations. He is a recognized advocate for innovations on financial market and it is possible that under his supervision government will re-enable **Bitcoin exchanges** and other banned activities with crypto...

...nal **brokerage services**? In China, there is a special profession as introducing brokers. They are a formal bridge between Chinese closed economy and international investors and entrepreneurs. This might become an only way to work with the Chinese financial market if the service bans will not stop. Western brokerage services will be able to work further inside the Chinese borders but business...

February 16th became an important day for **European crypto-community**. **Switzerland** showed itself as a progressive jurisdiction and published guidelines regarding the **ICO regulation**. It was developed by The Swiss financial market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Many Swiss startups has now decided to announce ICO as acceptable since it is easier than attracting investors as it was 5 - ...

The President of the People’s Republic of China and the People's Bank of China announced their intentions to open up China’s financial markets to promote foreign competition. For now, foreign ownership is limited for banks and asset management companies. Within a few months **the foreign ownership cap will be removed**. These changes will open the market to foreign investors and banks, givin...

...ntirely. The plan is to implement a post-trade system that is blockchain-based. This will replace their existing Clearing House Electronic Subregister System. ASX estimates that by moving over to blockchain technology to administer the Australian financial market, they can add as many as 50 new features for traders, at the same time as making significant cost savings. The plan is already underw...

**The Swiss financial market Supervisory Authority FINMA has launched enforcement proceedings against envion AG.** After raising over $100 million from investors, envion AG’s ICO became the second major ICO that has sparked controversy in Switzerland. FINMA stated that **envion AG may have violated financial market law in relation to Initial Coin Offering** (ICO). Therefore, FINMA launched ...

...ns stay skeptical as to the actual advantages of distributed ledger technology. For instance, in June 2018, the Netherlands central bank (DNB) announced the results of a number of researches, concluding that blockchain is unable to meet the needs of financial markets infrastructure (FMI). Stay tuned with **Offshorelicense** to be informed of all legal news in relation to blockchain, legaltech a...