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CFAAR's Syed Rahman voices concern over new UK crypto seizure powers

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News: Vice-Chair Carmel King speaks to Global Restructuring Review

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News: CFAAR committee members Charlotte Hill and Dan Wyatt speak to CoinGeek

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News: CFAAR to participate in UKJT launch panel event

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News: CFAAR Featured in Recovery Magazine

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News: CFAAR founding member Carmel King speaks to Financial News

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News: CFAAR founders Aidan Larkin and Nick Price speak to Counsel Magazine

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News: CFAAR's Carmel King of Grant Thornton speaks to WIRED

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News: CFAAR founder Nick Price of Osborne Clarke speaks to WIRED

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News: CFAAR hosts its first roundtable event as part of London Tech Week

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News: The media covers the launch of CFAAR

20 March 2025

The path ahead for digital assets regulation in 2025

The regulatory landscape for digital assets is becoming increasingly clear. As we enter 2025, the clarity long sought by the industry is emerging. 

7 February 2025

D'Aloia – High Noon for Crypto-Tracing

The High Court judgment in D'Aloia v. Persons Unknown and others [2024] EWHC 2342 (Ch) is arguably the most significant crypto judgment of 2024.

13 January 2025

Companies House targeting of crypto executives is a warning to the industry at large

09 July 2024

High Court orders ethical crypto hack: Tai Mo Shan Limited v Oazo Apps Limited (2023) (unreported)

The English High Court has, for the first time,1 ordered 'ethical hacking' in a crypto context.

13 June 2024

Multi-million pound deepfake fraud reveals the danger posed to businesses by new AI technology

Many individuals, including numerous celebrities, have fallen victim to malicious use of "deepfake" technology: the realistic manipulation of a person's features by artificial intelligence, so they resemble somebody else.

8 April 2024

FTX, crypto and the future

For many, the trial and subsequent conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried is all about the numbers. And that is understandable. The 32-year-old co-founder of crypto exchange FTX is now starting a 25-year jail sentence for fraud – a fraud that has seen his customers lose $8 billion.

2 April 2024

Crypto-asset recovery: Summary judgment over traceable cryptoassets

A UK court has granted summary judgment to the victim of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme but stops short of making a final award.

28 February 2024

High Court grants injunctions and summary judgment against unknown fraudsters (Boonyaem v Persons Unknown)

A closer look at Boonyaem v Persons Unknown.

10 January 2024

Beware of false asset recovery agents: CFAAR will never ask for your money

According to statistics published by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis last year, illicit cryptocurrency-based activity was at an all-time high, with stolen funds through hacks and other phishing methods representing a significant proportion of the overall estimated US$20.6 billion in crypto-related crime globally.

24 May 2023

Binance successfully challenges interim proprietary injunction over deposited cryptoassets

In Piroozzadeh v Persons Unknown and Others [2023] EWHC 1024 (Ch), the cryptocurrency exchange Binance successfully applied to discharge an interim proprietary injunction obtained by a claimant whose misappropriated cryptoassets had been deposited at the exchange. This is the first recorded case of an exchange successfully having discharged such an injunction.

3 April 2023

The Tulip Saga Continues

Are blockchain developers liable as fiduciaries or otherwise to bitcoin owners who use their software? 

22 December 2022

The Centralised De-Centralised Crypto-economy

Financial Crash 2008: A Decentralised Vision - In November 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a Bitcoin White Paper setting out the framework for a wholly decentralised peer-to-peer electronic cash system without the need for a financial system.

6 June 2022

CFAAR's Syed Rahman of Rahman Ravelli discusses Ion Science Ltd v Persons Unknown

This case, is particularly significant in terms of crypto-related fraud and asset recovery, for reasons which we explain further down.