Challenges to a Global KYC Experience

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 [...]

By |2022-07-04T02:51:06+07:00July 4th, 2022|Banking and Finance, Data Privacy, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on Challenges to a Global KYC Experience

Draft Decree on Fintech Regulatory Sandbox

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 [...]

By |2022-06-20T03:38:57+07:00June 20th, 2022|Banking and Finance, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on Draft Decree on Fintech Regulatory Sandbox

Axie Infinity and Dispute Resolution

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 [...]

By |2022-06-13T02:58:13+07:00June 13th, 2022|Contract Law, Dispute Resolution, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on Axie Infinity and Dispute Resolution

New Draft Electronic Transactions Law

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 [...]

By |2022-05-16T04:42:38+07:00May 16th, 2022|Corporate and commercial, Legal News, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on New Draft Electronic Transactions Law

Data Localization Revisited, a Vietnam Primer

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 [...]

By |2022-05-09T04:20:34+07:00May 9th, 2022|Data Privacy, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on Data Localization Revisited, a Vietnam Primer

Move to Earn and Vietnam

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 [...]

By |2022-04-25T08:05:54+07:00April 25th, 2022|Banking and Finance, Contract Law, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on Move to Earn and Vietnam

E-Commerce in Vietnam, a Review

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 [...]

By |2022-03-28T04:48:16+07:00March 28th, 2022|Corporate and commercial, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on E-Commerce in Vietnam, a Review

How Cross-border Data Collection Threatens Us All

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 [...]

By |2022-03-21T03:11:32+07:00March 21st, 2022|Data Privacy, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on How Cross-border Data Collection Threatens Us All

E-Transactions in Vietnam

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 [...]

By |2022-03-14T02:56:26+07:00March 14th, 2022|Contract Law, TMT-Technology, Media, Telecom|Comments Off on E-Transactions in Vietnam
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