In December 2017, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton stated that the tokens issued in many initial coin offerings (ICOs) “contain the hallmarks of...
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Technology quotient - the ability of an individual, team or organization to harness the power of technology
The Bank of England’s excellent Quarterly Bulletin (latest issue out today) has a great teach-in on how banks allocate capital...
The UK's Treasury Select Committee has published a fairly strongly-worded report into "crypto-assets" (not the first time this term has...
Data breaches happen. Yet, not all kinds of data breaches entail obligations under the GDPR. Companies often struggle to identify what is...
Applied to financial services, Isaac Asimov’s first law of robotics would perhaps go something like: A robot may not injure a human...
On 24th August the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD, an arm of the World Bank, issued a small tranche of AUD...
The EU Parliament has voted to adopt its position on controversial changes to EU copyright rules. This involves changes to proposals to...
The European Union has moved one step closer to adopting a formal adequacy decision in respect of Japan. The Commission published its...
Not holding any data in the UK? Not incorporated in the UK? Not even doing any business in the UK? You may still be within immediate...
In terms of health data, the UK really does hold the world’s crown jewels: a ‘longitudinal’ data-set, tracking a patient’s health record...
On 20 September 2018, the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) will hold the first of three...