Tax Restructuring through Cryptocurrency

by Editor | Nov 10, 2018 | Law

Tax (Re)structuring: the advent of Cryptocurrency by Ombo Malumbe* Abstract The ideology of establishing Bitcoin (read cryptocurrency) has been in place prior to the year 2008 when the first stable cryptocurrency was conceptualised by the mysterious person or group of...

The Philippines on ICO

by Editor | Aug 7, 2018 | Law

On August 02, 2018 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Government of Philippines proposed rules that it intends to use in regulating investors who intend to utilise the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) as a means of raising funds either through Private...

Regulating Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

by Editor | Aug 3, 2018 | Law

Regulating Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Well, after working with at least 11 Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency companies in the European Union (EU) and some in the United States of America (USA) for purposes of structuring the companies or the White Paper to...

The Legality of Cryptocurrency

by Editor | Apr 11, 2018 | Law

Introduction The legality of Cryptocurrency came into question in the year 2015, whereby the Central Bank of Kenya (the ‘CBK’) issued a public caveat over the use of cryptocurrency. In their words, the CBK, states that cryptocurrency is not a legal tender nor is...

Software: Copyright & Patent Practices

by Editor | Apr 11, 2018 | Law

Copyright: Introduction Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a composition of various overlapping rights such as Copyright, Trademarks, Geographical Designs, Patents et al. Various schools of thought that are pro-intellectual property argue that by offering IPR, it...

Internet & Remote Contracts

by Editor | Apr 11, 2018 | Law

Internet Agreements entails any form of agreement that two or more parties may enter into with hope of attaining certain goods or services. The contract meets the basic principles of contract law. However, there other peculiar factors such as signing, for instance,...