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Blockchain Regulation & Policy
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Course Overview
Blockchain technology– the new, distributed platform that removes intermediaries from the equation and resolves the trust issue – has brought fundamental changes to almost all industries and business models by enabling novel ways of transacting. The technology brings tremendous challenges to established principles, rules, laws, and regulations and has captured the minds of digital innovators, the wider financial industry, regulators, and governments alike.
Even though this technology is still in its infancy, there are endless possibilities for Blockchain that could completely transform the way businesses are conducted. While countries around the world are trying to find out an appropriate approach to regulate Blockchain’s use and applications, individuals and organizations should now assess its related risks and legal challenges. Today, we witness that different countries are approaching or attempt to regulate the use of Blockchain in their own way, i.e. some countries are welcoming, other are cautious, or demonstrate resistance to apply the technology. There is no doubt that, regulation, supervision, and global coordination will of course enable Blockchain to become mainstream. To ensure this, a harmonized and pro-innovation approach to the results brought by the technology and the way it is regulated is needed.
This training course aims to consider the emerging issues in the regulation of Blockchain technology and examine the potential need for additional or adapted legislation. In this course, participants will understand that the wider the adoption of Blockchain technology across the world, the greater innovation, which is vital for the businesses and societies. Furthermore, the most important developments in relation to regulating the use of Blockchains shall be discussed and assessed, including certain pieces of regulation that has already been in place as well as initiatives, directives, views and positions of global bodies, key jurisdictions, different countries’ regulators and authorities.
Blockchain Regulation & Policy
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Schedule
Friday 07/05/2021 - 09:00-13:30
Christiana Aristidou is a former partner of a 50-year legacy medium-size family law firm, who recently established Christiana Aristidou LLC, a hybrid SmartLaw-Tech firm. Christiana has been practicing business and technology law for more than 23 years, she is a Certified International Legal Project Practitioner (IILPM), a Digital Transformation Specialist and an EU licensed litigator since 1997. She is a Cyprus Delegate to the ISO TC/307 Blockchain Committee, member of WG6 on blockchain use cases and actively contributing to WG-3 on Smart Contracts. She has also served in ITU-FG-DLTs. Christiana is a co-founding member and Vice-Chair of the Cyprus Blockchain Association (CBA). Having studied and lived in more than five different countries, i.e., Greece, the UK, Germany, China and Cyprus, Christiana combined legal studies on law and technology, in both, common law and civil law jurisdictions and maintains a very rich network which supports a global reach of more than 50K professionals and corporates in more than 120 countries and holds Directorships as well as advisory positions in the boards of several corporate bodies. Christiana is a graduate of the law school of the Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece and holds three (3) Master degrees from the UK, on International Business, Commercial and Technology Law, a Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration from the University of Cologne and a certificate in Chinese Culture and language (HSK2) from Mandarin House-Shanghai. She also holds a certificate in Digital Currencies from the University of Nicosia and a certificate on Data Protection and Privacy Rights from HELP-EU. Christiana has been involved in multijurisdictional and complex business and technology legal projects and worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies and entrepreneurs. She has advised major local and international players in the fields of regulation compliance, IT and advanced technologies, platform design, legal mechanics and legal architecture for platform-based innovative business models, start-up projects and funding (i.e. ICOs, STOs, IPOs), digital identity , electronic signatures, digital onboarding and online identity verification, open banking and payment innovation, privacy by design, e-money, digital currencies, crypto-coins and crypto-exchanges, tokens and tokenisation, transactional deals and documentation, commercial contract drafting, cybersecurity, financial services and fintech, funding and investments, insurance, telecommunications, internet and cybersecurity, software and gaming, technology IP protection, and intellectual property taxing. Christiana is a trainer training leaders, executives, teams and departments on several major EU Directives, Regulations and other legal and regulatory compliance instruments. She is also a legal author and a regular speaker at national and international technology conferences and summits.
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