crypto assets

Crypto assets, as an asset class, have seen soaring valuations and scandals over the years. One Luxembourg AIFM thinks this country’s nascent crypto asset ecosystem is primed for growth from institutional investors when all the puzzle pieces finally fit together.

For Luxembourg’s crypto community, Thursday’s adoption of the MiCA regulation in the European Parliament reassures established financial players and offers an EU passportable licensing regime with no need for national transposition in member states. “It enables new ways of issuance and distribution of new types of assets,” said ABBL.

Europe’s long-awaited Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation is finally coming up for a vote this coming Thursday at the European Parliament’s meeting in Strasbourg. Players in the crypto industry around the world and in Luxembourg, from cryptocurrency to NFT providers are closely parsing the text that will be voted on. 

Inheritance planning is one area where tokenisation can provide benefits, the experience of VP Bank in the Alpine state shows. The bank’s specialists recent spoke in Luxembourg to explain how tokenisation can be applied once the EU MiCA regulation enters into force.