IFLR Cryptocurrency Special Focus 2022 launched

Click on right here to learn IFLR’s Cryptocurrency Particular Focus 2022.

Our authors from Kim & Chang talk about the significance of multilateral cooperation to harmonise laws within the digital asset market. That is notably essential as a result of cryptocurrencies and digital property, in addition to decentralised autonomous organisations (DAO) and decentralised finance (DeFi) have gotten more and more mainstream.

On the time of writing, South Korea’s solely regulation on digital or digital property is the Act on Reporting and Utilizing Specified Monetary Transaction Data (AML Act), but the scope of that is very slender. As our contributors write, “We should always acknowledge that there is not going to be a one-size-fits-all reply to regulating digital property. Nevertheless, we should always all the time be aware that digital property are cross-border in nature.” This will likely be a problem for regulators in terms of governing the usage of digital property.

In the meantime, our writers from CQ Authorized analyse the state of cryptocurrency regulation in Ghana, the place the crypto market has seen fast development in recent times. There isn’t any cryptocurrency laws in Ghana presently and the Financial institution of Ghana (BoG) has issued notices stating that cryptocurrencies are usually not recognised as authorized tender within the nation.

Nevertheless, as curiosity in digital currencies grows, and certain in recognition of the Ghanaian economic system’s heavy reliance on cellular cash transactions the BoG is piloting its personal central financial institution digital foreign money (CBDC), the eCedi.

Click on right here to learn IFLR’s Cryptocurrency Particular Focus 2022.