How Blockchain Could Improve the Global Supply Chain

By Chang-hsien Tsai and Ching-Fu Lin May 10, 2023 by renholding

Global supply chains (GSCs) have become increasingly complex and fragmented over the last few decades due to advances in transportation and production technology, economic globalization, and the emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs). Despite their benefits, GSCs present significant risks of …

Fed Governor Brainard Offers an Update on Digital Currencies

By Lael Brainard August 21, 2020 by renholding

It is a pleasure to participate in San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is a leader of our engagement with the tech community. And the Federal Reserve’s Innovation Office Hours serve as an important …

Can Blockchain Create a Corporate-Governance Revolution at Public Companies?

By Federico Panisi, Ross P. Buckley and Douglas W. Arner July 1, 2019 by renholding

In a new paper, we analyze the major disconnect between the theory of corporate governance, its legal expression, and the reality of corporate ownership structures, based on an “indirect holding system” (IHS), which has evolved from complex existing technological …

The Imperative for Blockchain Accounting

By Dov Fischer June 7, 2019 by renholding

For hundreds of years, the basic flowchart of accounting information has been the same. A firm records its own transactions, maintains a record of those transactions, and reports those transactions (Soll, 2014, xiv). Trends in technology make it inevitable that …

Initial Crypto-asset Offerings, Tokenization, and Corporate Governance

By Stéphane Blemus and Dominique Guégan May 1, 2019 by renholding

Blockchain and other types of distributed ledger technology pose various new legal and economic questions for companies. Are crypto-asset holders a new kind of corporate stakeholder? If so, are they like shareholders or bondholders, and how can they participate in …

Debevoise Discusses Possible EU Approach to ICOs and Crypto-Assets

By Klaudius Heda, Clarisse Hannotin, Dr. Oliver Krauß and Dr. Friedrich Popp January 30, 2019 by abirvarma

In the first week of 2019, both the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) and the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) issued reports advising EU legislators on the regulation of “crypto-assets” and initial coin offerings (“ICOs”). The European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”), …

SEC Commissioner Talks Old Law and New Frontiers at RegTech Summit

By Michael S. Piwowar March 9, 2018 by renholding

Questions of FinTech and RegTech have been paramount in my mind and, I think it is safe to say, the minds of my fellow Commissioners in recent months.[1]

Old Fields and New Corn

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