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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 -

NYDFS adds enhancements for detecting virtual currency fraud

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/24/2023

On February 21, NYDFS Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced enhancements to the Department’s ability to detect fraud in the virtual currency industry. The new enhancements will improve NYDFS’s ability to combat...more

Federal Judge Adopts CFTC Position That Cryptocurrencies Are Commodities

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/14/2018

• A New York federal judge held that virtual currencies are commodities within the meaning of the Commodity Exchange Act. • This marks the first court decision to assess and to adopt the CFTC’s position that virtual...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.21.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/21/2016

The Treasury Dept’s Office of Financial Research has found that money-market funds are increasingly entering into direct repurchase loans with large investors and insurers—another sign that “participants in short-term lending...more

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Virtual Currency › Currency Manipulation

NYDFS adds enhancements for detecting virtual currency fraud

Federal Judge Adopts CFTC Position That Cryptocurrencies Are Commodities

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.21.16

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