Author: Simont Braun’s Digital Finance Team Publication date: december 2018 It happens that traders, operating in one EU Member State, block or limit access to their websites and applications by customers from other member states who would like to engage in cross-border transactions (a practice called ‘geo-blocking’). This, together with the
Author: Simont Braun’s Digital Finance Team Publication date: January 2019 Introduction In the world of Payments and FinTech, PSD2 has been a hot topic for several years now. Last year was already a crucial year with the transposition deadline of this directive scheduled for 13 January 2018. This transposition gave
Authors: Vanessa Marquette and Fanny Laune (Simont Braun) Publication date: January 2019 On 19 December 2018, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the proposal for a directive on “preventive restructuring frameworks, second chance and measures to increase the efficiency of restructuring, insolvency and discharge procedures”. The main objective
CJEU and Belgian Supreme Court on the interaction between free movement of goods and trademark rights. On November 7, 2016 the Belgian Supreme Court (Cour de cassation – Hof van cassatie) gave judgment in two cases regarding the repackaging of pharmaceuticals, wherein it ruled in favour of the parallel importer with
The new Belgian law on crowdfunding platforms of 18 December has been published in the Belgian Official Journal.
