Stablecoins & payments
Issuance, safeguarding, redemption, payment architecture and the regulatory conditions around launch.
Independent research · Digital assets
Digital assets.
Regulation into action.
Researching how digital-asset regulation changes products, transactions and cross-border market entry across the UK, Europe and Asia.
Research focus
Where law becomes a business decision.
The work here is organised around decisions a product team, transaction team or market-entry team actually has to make—not around regulation as an abstract subject.
Digital-asset regulation
Regulatory perimeter, authorisation, conduct and how rules change product and operating models.
Tokenisation
Tokenised money, real-world assets and emerging financial-market infrastructure.
Transactions
Digital-asset M&A, investment, governance and diligence questions that do not fit traditional checklists.
Featured research
Start with the decision, then read the rule.
UK Crypto Authorisation Gateway: five decisions before the window opens
A product-and-operating-model lens on the FCA’s 30 September 2026 gateway and the 2027 regime.
UKAuthorisationProduct
Stablecoin Launch Matrix
A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction product decision matrix for UK, EU and selected Asian financial centres.
StablecoinsCross-border
Digital Asset M&A Due Diligence
A framework for identifying token, protocol, custody, governance and regulatory risks missed by conventional deal checklists.
M&AGovernance
Notes
Shorter observations, kept separate from flagship research.
A research-led professional identity, not a legal-services storefront.
This project builds a focused body of work around digital assets, stablecoins, payments and tokenisation, with an emphasis on translating regulation into product, transaction and market-entry decisions.
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