Tom Davis, a former FBI Special Agent and fraud prevention and AML/KYC compliance expert, recently joined Coinme as their first general counsel. He shares why he joined this startup and his hopes for how to make an impact as this new normal of banking evolves.
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Iris Jones, chief marketing and client development officer with Akerman, highlights how a firm’s culture plays a role in client retention and satisfaction, the growth of women general counsel at Fortune 500 companies and why the next generation should embrace artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.
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Jonathan Solomon, principal with Fish & Richardson, discusses the state of the cryptocurrency industry – what kinds of technologies his clients are looking to patent, the challenges of obtaining patent protection in this area, and where he sees the industry heading in the future.
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Cryptocurrency assets now top $1.5 trillion globally, attracting a wave of cyber crime.
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CCBJ: Akin Gump has been recognized by the Financial Times for its work in compliance and technology. What led to that recognition?
Thomas McCarthy: Beginning over a decade ago, there was an upswing in enforcement trends by the U.S. government in areas that affected our clients – particularly export controls, sanctions and anticorruption.
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By Jason Mark Anderman / American Express Company
What if you and your counterparty possessed 100 percent certainty that every word and every signature in every contract you’ve negotiated were perfectly accurate? What if every payment obligation could be automatically enforced without human involvement? What if you could stack contractual duties in condition-precedent dominoes so that you automatically paid a supplier fee only after valid confirmation of goods delivery?
This is no fantasy. It’s the world offered by smart contracts today.Continue Reading Blockchain for Lawyers: New technology has changed the capabilities of documents once done with paper and pen