The future of payments: Programmable payments for the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
The future of payments Authors: Maximilian Forster, Jonas Gross, Anja Kristina Kamping, Serkan Katilmis, Dr. Mario Reichel, Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, Philipp Schröder Digitization is taking hold of entire industries, including in Germany. The area of the “Internet of...
Which jurisdictions head up the retail central bank digital currency league table?
Authors: Jonas Gross, John Kiff While much attention is focused on the retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) ruminations of China, Europe and the United States, aside from China, smaller jurisdictions are actually leading the way. Although the People’s Bank of...
Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology: Data Protection Law
In this article, we analyze from a legal perspective how the topic of data protection, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), plays out specifically in the context of blockchain-based databases. In our legal assessment, we distinguish between 1)...