Beyond the Hype: The Future of Digital Assets – UK developments in institutional and wholesale digital assets

The first quarter of 2023 has seen a flurry of new developments which are going to form the fundamental legal and regulatory building blocks in relation to this fast-growing sector. These include, for example, proposed new regulated activities regimes; new disclosure/whitepaper rules; new market abuse regimes; reforms to underlying property law; reforms to insolvency law; and proposed new industry standard derivatives documentation. 

In this episode, our digital assets experts focus on the latest law and regulation of institutional/wholesale digital assets products and services, including topics such as custody of digital assets, tokenisation and derivative trends.  They discuss the key issues and areas where market participants will need to be aware of the evolving design of the relevant regimes.