BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
No Boredom (or yacht clubs) as Singapore High Court confirms NFTs are property
In a ground-breaking judgment, the Singapore High Court confirmed that NFTs have attributes of property, and the Court has jurisdiction...
Independent Reserve secures first in-principle license approval in Singapore
In early 2020 the strides that Singaporean regulators were making in the digital asset space caught the attention of one of Australia's...
Singapore driving digital documents forward
Singapore has recently refreshed their Electronic Transactions Act (Chapter 88) (ETA) to enhance business' and citizens' certainty, use...
Cross border modernisation: Australian Border Force launches blockchain trial
The Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement (DEA) entered into force on 8 December 2020 bringing with it global benchmarks for...
Banks rival for custody of digital asset keys
United Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore’s third largest bank, appears to be making the move into the cryptocurrency space. After...