With the past year marked by a number of enforcement actions and investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators against major actors in the digital assets space. This webinar will...more
8/14/2024
/ Continuing Legal Education ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Investigations ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Securities Violations ,
Technology Sector ,
Webinars ,
Wells Notice
Join us for the next edition of FinTech University as we focus on assessments of U.S. and European Crypto asset regulations. This webinar will examine European regulation of crypto assets, as well as regulatory efforts in the...more
On August 29, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued new proposed regulations regarding reporting obligations for parties engaged in certain digital transactions. The proposed regulations address the reporting...more
Like Zeus unleashing the Kraken in Clash of the Titans, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unleashed the Kraken (not the digital asset company) to unleash havoc on Genesis Global Capital LLC (Genesis) and...more
2/7/2023
/ Cryptoassets ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Wallets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fees ,
Interest Payments ,
Investment Contract ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Reves Test ,
Reves v Ernst & Young ,
Securities Act ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Securities Violations ,
Trading Platforms
In a case watched by companies that offered and sold digital assets Federal District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro recently granted summary judgment for the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) against LBRY, Inc. This case...more
In a recent speech,2 Gensler quoted the first Chairman of the SEC, Joseph Kennedy3 who noted: “No honest business need fear the SEC.”4 Unfortunately, Gensler failed to note that as the SEC often explains, whether a party has...more
In a recent speech, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler quoted the first chairman of the SEC, Joseph Kennedy, who noted, “No honest business need fear the SEC.” Unfortunately, Gensler failed to note that as the SEC often explains,...more
9/22/2022
/ Criminal Prosecution ,
Digital Assets ,
FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) ,
Gary Gensler ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Securities Transactions ,
Stablecoins
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (“SAB 121”) on March 31, 2022. SAB 121 provides SEC staff’s views regarding accounting treatment of obligations incident to a reporting...more
Regulators may be nervous about workers staking their retirements on crypto. The United States Department Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (the “DOL”) recently issued Compliance Assistance Release No. 2022-01...more
3/31/2022
/ 401k ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Digital Assets ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Investment Management ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Retirement Plan
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
3/16/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Bitcoin ,
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Financial Transactions ,
Investment Contract ,
Investor Protection ,
Regulatory Agenda
Join Nelson Mullins’s Women in FinTech (“WinFin”) Group for the inaugural WinFin Conference. The panel of nationally recognized thought leaders will share insights on FinTech’s global development. As we celebrate Women's...more
3/16/2022
/ Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Diversity ,
Events ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Venture Capital
The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s. Where critics see a passing fad with little actual utility or a lawless...more
2/25/2022
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Banks ,
Bitcoin ,
Blockchain ,
Competition ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Digital Wallets ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Financial Instruments ,
FinTech ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stablecoins ,
Virtual Currency
Continuing the FinTech University CLE series, join Richard Levin, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran for this one-hour session on digital assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin, other tokens, and NFTs. The last 10...more
9/28/2021
/ Bitcoin ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Ethereum ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Popular ,
Webinars
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once noted: “The only thing to fear is fear itself ... ” Apparently, some in the federal government no longer share this belief. In a recent Investor Bulletin[2] (“Bulletin”), the Securities...more
So let’s dance this last dance. On Jan. 4, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) published a Chief Counsel’s Interpretative Letter (the “Letter”) confirming the authority of national banks’ and federal...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) entered an order on Dec. 15, 2020 with Wireline, Inc., related to the company’s unregistered offering of securities using a simple agreement for future tokens (“SAFT”). ...more