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   "text": "To the extent adjudication over U.K. corporate law is expected to take place outside the U.K., the U.K. has not in fact exported a bundled product; its users are demonstrating a preference for an unbundled package.",
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   "text": "Because the English common law system is gravitating toward a civil law approach that weights statutes more heavily than judicial interpretation, the value of a bundled package of statutes plus adjudication even in a European common law jurisdiction may not greatly exceed the value of the statutes standing alone.",
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   "text": "Empirically, at least 48 companies with German names carrying the GmbH designation were formed as private limited companies under U.K. law in the ten months after the Inspire Art decision, indicating that charter migration accelerated after the ruling.",
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   "text": "The UK Financial Conduct Authority takes the position that ICOs may be regulated as securities depending on the aspects and rights the coin holder obtains through holding the coin, assessed case by case.",
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   "text": "The FCA has acknowledged that distributed ledger technology has unique aspects capable of working around current regulations.",
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   "text": "In the UK, e-money and payment services obligations attach if voucher rewards are fiat-redeemable or open-loop; otherwise LER should fall outside the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 and the Payment Services Regulations 2017 under limited-network concepts.",
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