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Virtual Currency › Alternative Trading System (ATS)

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Virtual Currency (aka Digital Currency or Digital Money) is a type of currency or medium of exchange that is not issued by any government nor guaranteed by a government currency. Despite lacking legal tender status, Virtual Currency is still traded and exchanged in some environments, typically online environments or communities. Bitcoin is the most well-known form of Virtual Currency. less -

Focus on Crypto and Blockchain: Regulatory Fog Begins to Lift, but Many Questions Remain

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/4/2022

The cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has developed over the past decade with a large and increasingly glaring void: What regulations ultimately will apply and who will regulate the space? Much regulatory focus to date...more

The SEC: IEOs are a pile of red flags

Sullivan & Worcester on 1/23/2020

On January 14, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued an investor alert urging investors to use caution before investing in initial exchange offerings ("IEOs"). In contrast with an Initial Coin...more

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Topics on SEC/Corporate, Broker-Dealer, Derivatives, CFTC, Digital Assets and...

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 7/23/2018

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Amends the Definition of “Smaller Reporting Company” - On June 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it adopted amendments to the definition of “smaller reporting company,” which...more

Blockchain and Digital Token Update: SEC Releases Investigative Report and Investor Bulletin

Perkins Coie on 7/27/2017

On July 25, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released groundbreaking materials relating to blockchain tokens. These materials provide significant and welcome insight to the SEC’s and its staff’s thinking...more

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume XI, Issue 17

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/2/2016

BROKER-DEALER - SEC Modifies and Extends Pilot Program for NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility - The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an order that modifies and extends the National...more

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