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SEC’s Scrutiny of AI Expands to Marketing Disclosures and Adviser Exams

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Chair Gensler Continues to Be Outspoken About the Risks of AI Technologies - Chair Gensler’s warnings of the potential risks associated with the use of AI technologies in the securities industry recently continued with...more

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SEC Proposal Balances AI-Like Technology Use With Investor Best Interests: Has the Regulator Picked a Winner?

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Like other savvy businesses, investment advisers and broker-dealers have increasingly embraced the use of predictive data analytics, artificial intelligence, and similar technologies (AI-like technologies) to help generate...more

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SEC Enhances Regulation of Private Fund Advisers

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On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt new rules and amendments under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) to the regulation of private fund advisers (Final Rule). The...more

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The United Kingdom Introduces New Rules for Marketing Cryptoassets

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has introduced robust new rules for those marketing cryptoassets to UK consumers. In Policy Statement PS23/6, new requirements covering financial promotions for all firms aimed at...more

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New York’s CRPTO Act – the Most Comprehensive Set of Regulations yet on Cryptocurrency

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On May 5, 2023, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency, and Oversight (“CRPTO”) Act, which aims “to protect customers and investors in digital assets from fraudulent...more

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Consumer Regulators' Role in Biden Administration's Framework on Digital Assets

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Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets ("Digital Assets EO"). The Digital Assets EO directed over 20 federal agencies to provide the Administration...more

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White House Fact Sheet: Comprehensive Framework for Responsible Development of Digital Assets

Last Friday, September 16, the White House released a “Fact Sheet” that lays out a comprehensive framework around which a plethora of Federal Government agencies and departments are being tasked with addressing digital...more

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Countdown to MiCA: The EU’s cryptoassets regulation

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On 30 June 2022, the European Council (Council) and the European Parliament (Parliament), announced that they had reached a provisional agreement on the proposal for regulation on markets in cryptoassets (MiCA), which covers...more

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Biden Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets: A Critical Opportunity to Shape Blockchain &...

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On Wednesday, March 9, President Biden issued an Executive Order entitled Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets. The President’s order represents the first time that the White House has sought to develop a...more

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Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets: The Intersection of Climate Change and Cryptocurrencies

On March 9, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets (the “Executive Order”) that sets in motion a “whole-of-government” strategy to address the impacts of the rise...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

President Biden Issues Executive Order Framing His Administration’s Approach to Regulating Digital Assets

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, President Biden issued a long-awaited Executive Order, Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, that outlined a whole-of-government approach to regulating digital assets...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

President Biden Signs Executive Order Outlining Federal Government’s Approach to Digital Assets

On March 9, 2022, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order (EO) #14067, Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, a long-awaited regulatory roadmap for executive branch agencies. In the EO, Biden directs relevant...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help: President Biden Signs Executive Order on Digital Assets

Please forgive some members of the FinTech community for remembering President Ronald Reagan’s comment: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help.’” President...more

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President Biden Signs Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

President Biden launched an effort to establish a federal digital assets policy strategy and coordinate the related work of federal regulators by signing the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Biden Executive Order Calls for Regulatory Proposals on Digital Assets and Central Bank Digital Currency

On March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order titled “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” (the “Order”).1 The Order directs a broad range of federal agencies to recommend legislative and...more

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Executive Order on Digital Assets Means Industry-Shifting Regulation Is Closer Than Ever

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On March 9, 2022, Bitcoin prices surged and many in the crypto community celebrated as the Biden administration announced a sweeping executive order that acknowledges the key role digital assets will play in global financial...more

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President Biden Signs Cryptocurrency Executive Order

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” (the “Order”). This widely anticipated Order came as a pleasant surprise for both proponents and...more

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New Biden Executive Order on Digital Assets

President Biden issued an executive order (“EO”) recently on “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets.” The EO calls for an aligned, all-of-government approach to digital assets, which the EO defines to include,...more

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White House Issues Executive Order Calling for Inter-Agency Study of Digital Assets

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President Biden's executive order calls for "whole-of-government" approach to studying risks and harnessing potential benefits of digital asset technologies. On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, President Biden signed a...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Detailing National Policy Objectives for Digital Assets

On March 9, 2022, the President issued an Executive Order (the “E.O.”) that articulates a high-level, wide-ranging national strategy for regulating and fostering innovation in the burgeoning digital assets space.  The...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

President Trump Signs the HFCAA into Law Prompting SEC to Change Course

On December 18, 2020, President Trump signed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA) into law. Later that day, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton published a statement providing an...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Proposes Rule Changes to Exempt Offering Framework

On March 4, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to the current framework of registration exemptions and safe harbors. ...more

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Revising the Regulatory Definition of a Qualified Mortgage

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When the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) last summer issued its Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“ANPR”) to revise the definition of a “Qualified Mortgage” (“QM”) under the Dodd-Frank Act’s...more

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SEC proposes simplification of derivatives rules for closed-end, other funds

The SEC voted to propose a rule designed to enhance the regulation of the use of derivatives by registered investment companies, including closed-end funds, as well as mutual funds, ETFs and business development companies....more

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Financial Stability Board Publishes Letter to G20 Ministers on Effect of Reforms and Future Work

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The Financial Stability Board has published a letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors describing the progress of post-financial crisis reforms and key focus areas for the future. Over the past ten years,...more

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