Know Your Customer (KYC) is a major element of most countries’ anti-money laundering legislation. Vietnam is no exception. It has developed a comprehensive set of KYC regulations and have even extended the process to allow for digital KYC confirmation. And herein lies the problem. KYC relies on the cooperation of each country. Vietnam may have [...]
A couple of months ago, the government of Vietnam issued a second draft decree on implementation of the regulatory sandbox for financial technologies (Fintech). We have been looking for this for a long time and, I’m ashamed to say it, I missed it when it first came through my inbox because I wasn’t looking for [...]
This last week I gave a presentation for ASEAN Legal Alliance on NFTs, Axie Infinity, and the major problem digital assets present for national sovereigns. I’ve previously written in this space about the difficulty of the Metaverse being largely owned and operated by an American company. Citing the United States reaction to Chinese limitations to [...]
In a recent article in VN Express (see link here) the author discusses a recent trend in Vietnam for websites and apps to hop on the move 2 earn bandwagon in an effort to scam money from users before they are caught and shut down. First off, move 2 earn is essentially a metaverse game [...]
Recently, the National Assembly's law committee issued a draft of the new Electronic Transaction Law which is now undergoing comments from interested public parties. This is the first time that electronic transactions will warrant their own law as previous regulations on this subject matter have been limited to decrees of the government. This article will [...]
Data Localization, Where We Stand In 2018 the National Assembly passed the controversial new law on cybersecurity that subsequently went into effect on 1 January 2019. In addition to providing rules that allowed the government to arguably censor residents who posted objectionable content on the internet, it also expanded and simultaneously solidified the data localisation [...]
A new NFT model has recently hit the news, StepN, which is a game/program/model in which users have the opportunity to buy an NFT sneaker which represents their real sneaker and is linked to their movements via their cellphones or smartwatch. They can then be rewarded with cryptocurrency according to how much they actually move [...]
Under the laws of Vietnam, e-commerce activity means conducting a part or the whole of the process of commercial activity by electronic means connected to the internet, mobile telecommunications network or other open networks. A commercial activity is activity for profit-making purposes, comprising purchase and sale of goods, provision of services, investment, commercial enhancement, and [...]
I'm a little scared. And it's Facebook's fault. The thing is, for the longest time, the world was organized into discreet territories with their own sovereignty, powers, and abilities to control the trade that crossed their borders. They could physically stop something or someone from entering their country by holding them up at the border [...]
Electronic Transactions (E-Transactions) in Vietnam As defined in the Electronic Transaction Law (the ET Law), electronic transaction or e-transaction means a transaction conducted by electronic means. Electronic means are means that operate on the basis of an electric, electronic, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electro-magnetic technology or similar technologies. Any transactions by electronic means in the [...]