Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘BaFin-license’

• Crypto-Custody Business in Germany: BaFin Provides Licenses

  Feb 14, 20 • Banking Regulations, Blockchain, Digital Currencies • No Comments • Dr. Annette Wagemann
  

  As WINHELLER reported lately, the fifth European Money Laundering Directive was implemented by the German parliament in November 2019. The directive came into force on January 1, 2020. As a result, Germany and the other member states of the European Union […]

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• Banking License and Brexit: Here is the Cost of a German BaFin License

  Mar 29, 19 • Banking Law, Banking Regulations • No Comments • Dr. Annette Wagemann
  

  The UK is presently heading for a “hard” Brexit. If this happened, the country would leave both the EU and the European Economic Area. Many UK banks and financial services providers are therefore right to consider relocating their domicile or business […]

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• Bitcoins and Criminal Law

  Apr 14, 15 • Digital Currencies • No Comments • Benjamin Kirschbaum
  

  The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) considers bitcoins to be units of account and thus financial instruments within the meaning of the German Banking Act. Accordingly, whoever operates banking transactions or financial services with bitcoins commercially or to an extent, which […]

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