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Illya Gerasymchuk
Financial & Software Engineer

Financial law: regulation, securities, and legal analysis

Where finance meets law. These articles break down securities regulations, banking law, tax treaties, and the legal frameworks that shape how markets actually operate — from Basel to MiCA to international tax structures.

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Bulgarian Lev has been pegged to Euro since 1999
Started: 2026-01-01 Updated: 2026-01-01 1 thoughts
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How the 1916 Fed Act Made Treasuries Prime Collateral
Started: 2025-11-23 Updated: 2025-11-23 1 thoughts
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Just wait until Bitcoin hype accounts find out that Czechia has not adapted the Euro, so it's not a part of the Eurozone.
Started: 2025-11-15 Updated: 2025-11-15 1 thoughts
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European Investment Funds Explained: UCITS, AIFs, AIFMD and the ELTIF Regime
Started: 2025-11-05 Updated: 2025-11-05 1 thoughts
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no, permissioned assets running on blockchains are NOT sheep in wolves' clothing
Started: 2025-10-10 Updated: 2025-10-10 1 thoughts
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decentralized digital Euro will not work, because the ECB needs to have full control over it
Started: 2025-10-04 Updated: 2025-10-04 1 thoughts
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ECB's legal framework forbids the use of gold revaluation proceeds to pay expenses or operating losses
Started: 2025-09-16 Updated: 2025-09-16 5 thoughts
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🇪🇺 ECB gained €10.5B on gold from 2023 to 2024
Started: 2025-09-15 Updated: 2025-09-15 2 thoughts
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🇪🇺 The best countermeasure that EU can take is swapping US securities for Gold
Started: 2025-04-03 Updated: 2025-09-14 2 thoughts
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gold revaluation will NOT solve the US debt problem
Started: 2025-09-04 Updated: 2025-09-06 21 thoughts
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91% of central banks are working on CBDCs, but not on a public blockchain
Started: 2025-08-28 Updated: 2025-08-28 5 thoughts
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wholesale CBDC vs retail CBDC - what's the difference?
Started: 2025-08-27 Updated: 2025-08-27 5 thoughts
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ECB plans to limit the amount of digital Euro CBDC a wallet can hold
Started: 2025-08-25 Updated: 2025-08-26 2 thoughts
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market makers and other dealers are also subject to regulatory balance sheet constraints
Started: 2025-08-17 Updated: 2025-08-17 4 thoughts
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by "central bank" I'm frequently referring to the broader set of the legal framework behind the macro monetary policy
Started: 2025-08-16 Updated: 2025-08-16 4 thoughts
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ECB recorded an €8 billion loss in 2024 - what happens in that case?
Started: 2025-08-14 Updated: 2025-08-15 5 thoughts
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USD is the world's reserve currency, but what does that mean?
Started: 2025-08-11 Updated: 2025-08-11 12 thoughts
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how banks work? bank's business model is very simple:
Started: 2025-08-05 Updated: 2025-08-05 11 thoughts
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regulations may sound boring - but they're crucial to understand money, liquidity and financial system as a whole
Started: 2025-07-27 Updated: 2025-07-27 4 thoughts
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🚨FED just injected $11B of liquidity #2
Started: 2025-07-07 Updated: 2025-07-07 23 thoughts
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🚨FED just injected $11B of liquidity #1
Started: 2025-07-07 Updated: 2025-07-07 6 thoughts
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🚨🏦 claims that gold is a Tier 1 asset under Basel III are FALSE: #1
Started: 2025-07-02 Updated: 2025-07-02 2 thoughts
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🇯🇵 How does Japan protect bank deposits when banks fail?
Started: 2024-10-27 Updated: 2024-10-27 10 thoughts