By Eilish Bouse, Director, Risk Advisory, Insurance Risk & Actuarial, Grant Thornton Gibraltar Gibraltar is a major hub for a number of business sectors, including insurance, fintech, gaming, and e-money – industries well-suited to AI adoption due to their scale…
By Jonathan Garcia, Partner, ISOLAS LLP When FTX collapsed in November 2022 it shook the entire digital assets ecosystem; currency values plunged, and consumers, institutions, and regulators panicked. The entire industry was dominated by fear and shock. For one of…
By The Hon. Albert Isola MP, Minister for Digital and Financial Services, HM Government of Gibraltar One of the greatest barriers to the effectiveness of blockchain regulation can sometimes be the perception that there is an unwillingness on the part…
By James Lasry, Deputy Head, Financial Services, Hassans International Law Firm Limited Over the last few years, a number of developments in Gibraltar from disparate fields have converged to create the ultimate eco-system for crypto funds. Although this has been evident…
Bringing regulators and the DLT community together Regulators cannot effectively oversee the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry without the experts in the DLT community, writes The Hon Albert Isola MP, Gibraltar’s Minister for Digital and Financial Services A few…
A framework that builds for the future How a bespoke framework is giving the Rock a competitive advantage By Nick Cowan, CEO of the GSX Group When it comes to regulating companies utilising Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the old fable…
The 2018 cryptocurrency crash has not halted growth A spectacular crash in cryptocurrency prices at the end of last year, had a subsequent roller coaster effect and a decline in digital business crowd funding (ICOs), but the digital financial…
Principles Based Regulation – Raising the Glass Ceiling on the Blockchain Industry By Nick Cowan, CEO, Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) Despite the downturn in the cryptocurrency market, the global blockchain landscape continues to build momentum, illustrated by…
DLT: regulation, applications and token sales 101 by Joey Garcia ISOLAS LLP Most people will have, by now, heard of the proposal to introduce a regulatory framework that is intended to capture and regulate firms that use distributed ledger technology…
Gibraltar gears up for DLT and Blockchain By Vickram Khatwani Senior Tax Manager, Deloitte The terms blockchain, cryptocurrency and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) have become part and parcel of everyday conversation, spoken by both industry professionals and the general public…
