Event: 
This call is part of a series of calls to familiarize Executives, Legal, and Compliance professionals with the European National Competent Authorities (NCAs) that will soon implement the MiCA regulation.

Portugal is a vibrant location for crypto users, investors, and digital asset developers. CMVM is likely to be the National Competent Authority in Portugal handling registration, compliance and supervision of CASPs in the country.

PolicyPartner and Talos will host Martinho Lucas Pires - a professor on fintech at Nova School of Law and former Of Counsel at DLA Piper, and Tomas Gomes da Silva - an Associate Lawyer at Garrigues. Both our guests have recently contributed to a book on MiCA implementation in EU.

Topics of discussion: 
- An overview of Portuguese securities and financial instrument regulation
- Short overview of CMVM / Bank of Portugal mandate under MiCAr
- Timeline for MiCA implementation
- Reporting requirements for firms engaged in trading of crypto assets
- Interaction between MiCA and MiFID regimes
- Permitted activities for CASPs (role of Defi within the framework)
- Considerations for firms planning to register in Portugal

About Talos
Talos is a trading technology firm that streamlines the digital asset trade lifecycle for buy-side and sell-side institutions by providing a single gateway connecting them with their various providers across the digital asset ecosystem.

Participants:
This call would be particularly useful for Executives, Legal and Compliance professionals engaged in digital assets that are sifting through MiCA compliance and determining where to domicile: Exchanges, Custody Providers, Wallet providers, Infrastructure Firms, Stablecoin issuers.

About PolicyPartner
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