Although money-moving businesses are an essential service, FinTech startups can still face major challenges during times of economic hardship. In today’s episode, I share how some steps that you can take to prevent your FinTech startup from being decimated by the economic downturn we are heading towards. If you found Read more…
This year has brought to the surface a set of completely new business and regulatory challenges and almost any FinTech or crypto company would have to make their own decision on how they are going to address that. So – what are the emerging challenges and new projects I am seeing? Read more…
Although many things have changed in the token industry over the past few years, token sales are still happening, they are still beneficial, and they definitely have a future! If you want to learn about the most vital elements of token-based crowdfunding, don’t miss this episode. If you found value Read more…
For those who don’t know, DeFi is a set of technical solutions that do not have an identifiable person or body behind the service. Today’s episode was triggered by an announcement made by Shapeshift about their intention to completely decentralize their company and go all-in with DeFi because they felt Read more…
Today, Yana is making predictions for 2021; she is focusing on FinTech. Compliance, how we view risks, and what may or may not happen in the next year. Yana discusses which FinTech services and which type of services will grow and attract customers, and also how new businesses and new Read more…
On December 21st, 2020, the SEC filed a lawsuit against Ripple, accusing the company of illegally offering securities without proper registrations and declarations as required by the US securities laws. In recent years, the SEC has ruled that Bitcoin and Ethereum were not securities, mainly because they are decentralized with Read more…
Are you ready to discuss Ripple versus the Securities and Exchange Commission? Yana uses Ripple as a starting point to analyze what it means for various token issuers in terms of how they position themselves, how the SEC views them, and what’s possible in this space. Listen as Yana speaks Read more…
So the doors to Compliance That Makes Sense Helpline are now open and we are accepting new participants. In January 2021, we will celebrate 2-year anniversary (can you imagine that!!!) and there are some clients who are still with us to date! Here is how you know if Compliance Helpline can actually help Read more…
I shared earlier that, in my view, the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act is a very advanced, helpful and comprehensive legislation, providing a lot of clarity for market participants. However, as everyone moves into implementation, most FinTech startups I talked to, run into some level of ambiguity with the following critical questions: Read more…
It’s been reported recently by a number of news outlets (here or here) that Luxembourg introduced a new Blockchain law. Why I refer to it as an “unfortunate hype” is because, factually speaking, this regulatory statement did not introduce any significant changes and did not really provide Read more…