The global digital landscape continues to rapidly transform and bring forth innovative financial instruments and technologies, including within the shifting regulatory frameworks that have shaped the digital asset ecosystem...more
Dr. Craig Wright’s claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of bitcoin and author of the bitcoin white paper, has been unequivocally dismissed by Mr. Justice Mellor of the British High Court. The judgment, issued on...more
There has been a growing trend among traditional funds and asset managers to launch programs to tokenize alternative assets. The main benefits of tokenizing funds include increased liquidity and accessibility, heightened...more
New York has enhanced its fraud prevention tools, while consumers can identify crypto scams using California’s scam tracker. A week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to cover...more
The last few years have thrown many surprises at businesses. Organizations across all sectors have faced inflation, global conflicts, supply chain challenges, a pandemic, and continually changing government policies. In 2023,...more
1/23/2023
/ Automotive Industry ,
Capital Markets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Energy Sector ,
EU ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
FDIC ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Tax Credits
The UK’s Law Commission (the Commission) published a consultation paper on July 28, 2022, proposing certain reforms to private property law in relation to digital assets, which was in response to the UK government requesting...more
Fintech is having a meteoric rise among investors in the emerging tech space, accounting for the second-highest area of investment with $3.8 billion in 2021. Q4 2021 alone saw $824 million across 23 deals, indicating a strong...more
3/9/2022
/ Acquisitions ,
Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Insurtech ,
Mergers ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
The year 2020 won’t soon be forgotten. Despite the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic presented on a global scale, 2020 ushered in new ways of thinking about stablecoin, a type of cryptocurrency that attempts to peg its...more
1/12/2021
/ Bitcoin ,
CFTC ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Financial Crimes ,
FinCEN ,
Money Transmitter ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Stablecoins ,
True Lender ,
Virtual Currency
The virtual currency Bitcoin has been a hot topic in FinReg for some time, but in recent weeks mainstream interest in Bitcoin has grown in light of the approaching “halving” or “halvening.” So what is the “halvening” and why...more
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic continue to monitor and address cryptoasset and distributed ledger technology activities. We recently posted on the guidance issued by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on...more
8/16/2019
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Data Privacy ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinCEN ,
FinTech ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Token Sales ,
UK
We are always looking to identify good forums for keeping abreast of global fintech developments and trends. One such interesting platform was Cross-Border Fintech: Regulation & the Law 2019, held in London on June 6, where...more