Arvin Abraham - Community Author: Finextra Research

5 fintech predictions for 2024: A light at the end of the tunnel

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

5 fintech predictions for 2024: A light at the end of the tunnel

2024 feels a lot better than 2023. While there are still some significant macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds, the dog days of 2023 are behind us and there is some light at the end of the tunnel. While market activity generally still remains muted, most expect a pick up in activity particularly as we enter the second half of the year. The fint...

27 February 2024 /predictions

The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

The tip of the iceberg: Assessing the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

On 27 March 2023, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Binance, as of the time of writing, remains the world’s largest crypto exchange by a large margin. Binance’s international exchange dwarfs its closest rivals having more than...

26 April 2023 /crime

5 predictions for fintech in 2023: What’s next after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year?

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

5 predictions for fintech in 2023: What’s next after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year?

Fintech in 2022 was buffeted by a cyclical sectoral downturn combined with a souring macro-economic environment. In part, the sector was a victim of its own success. After flying high and being one of the most heavily invested-in sectors for the past several years, it was only natural that values would come back down to reality and align with hist...

05 January 2023 /regulation

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

Navigating a distressed fintech market

This piece was co-authored by Sunay Radia, partner, McDermott, Will & Emery. Fintech encompasses a broad spectrum of emerging businesses operating at the intersection of financial services and technology including neobanks, digital brokers, e-money institutions, crypto businesses and more. While the sector has outperformed the general market fo...

03 October 2022 /markets

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

Law & Order in the Metaverse

The metaverse represents a paradigm shift in how people will experience the internet. However, it is still not well understood and significant topics relating to it have not been explored, including how legal concepts in the real world will operate when transitioned to a virtual world. This article aims to begin an exploration of those issues. It ...

04 April 2022 /regulation

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

Demystifying DAOs

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are organisations whose rules and governance (the parameters by which they operate and stakeholders interact) are encoded in a blockchain (i.e., in a computer program rather than set out in a typical paper based governance document such as a shareholder’s agreement). As these rules are set out in a blo...

04 October 2021 /crypto

Taming the crypto frontier and the global regulatory clamp down on Binance

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

Taming the crypto frontier and the global regulatory clamp down on Binance

Within the crypto community, Binance is ubiquitous. It is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with twenty-four hour trading volumes (at time of writing) of approximately $19.3 billion, dwarfing its competitors. By comparison, its US based rival Coinbase had trading volumes of approximately $2.7 billion during this period. Although undeniab...

09 August 2021 /crypto

The Bank of England’s digital currency proposal an exploration of digital sterling

Arvin Abraham Partner at Goodwin Procter

The Bank of England’s digital currency proposal an exploration of digital sterling

Sometimes lost in the excitement around Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is the potential for digital asset technology to revolutionise more traditional forms of money. The emergence of new and disruptive technologies in the currency space is creating incredible pressure for central banks the world over to compete and to co-opt some aspects of these n...

11 June 2021 /regulation

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