Protection Magazine

Protection, whether in the context of people or of tangible or intangible assets, refers at the same time to both the state of being protected and the act of protecting. The distinction is important, as the state of being protected is clearly transient - protection requires constant adaptation to the prevailing risks. Nothing endures but change. During the...

The world of global custodians has undoubtedly seen one of the greatest waves of new regulations changing not only their landscape, but also the way their institutional clients review their custody providers.

In the beginning, there were personal data being digitalized, accessible form everywhere by everyone. The new frontier, will, as always, generate abusive behaviours. Not long after, come threats and data breaches - such as ransomware or security breaches. Some are not brought to the attention of the public and the authorities, some are with delay... To deal...

Absent from our vocabulary until 2008, Bitcoin has now registered in excess of 340 million searches in Google, a figure that compares to the total searches for the word “Luxembourg”. So what is it? Bitcoin was the very first cryptocurrency, created in 2008. Just ten years on and more than 1500 crypto currencies have been launched with a total capitalization of...

All the relevant EU pieces of legislation (MIFID II, MAR, Prospectus Directive, UCITS, AIFMD, AML) target the investors’ protection and the integrity of the financial market as the cornerstone of the EU single market.