In this two-part seminar, Niels Vandezande will discuss the main tenets of the EU’s 2020 Digital Finance Package.

Part I focuses on crypto-regulation. We will first give an overview of the current state-of-play regarding the regulation of cryptocurrencies under the EU’s payment services, e-money and financial instruments law. We will then delve a bit deeper into the regulation of cryptocurrencies under anti-money laundering law, before discussing the EU’s proposed Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Additionally, we will discuss a few developments in the crypto-sphere, namely smart contracts and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Part II focuses on the more security-related aspects of the regulatory package, namely the proposals on digital operational resilience in the financial sector (DORA) and the new network and information security proposal (NIS2).

Date: 15 April & 6 May