Daily Compliance News: October 14, 2025, The CZ Pardon Edition
Ensuring Stability: The GENIUS Act's Impact on Stablecoin Insolvency — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Unpacking the Fifth Circuit's Landmark Tornado Cash Decision — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Crackdown on DeFi? An Examination of the CFTC's Enforcement Action Against Uniswap — The Crypto Exchange
From Paper to Digital: The California DMV's Leap Into Blockchain Technology — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Dogecoin’s Day in Court
A Tale of Two Crypto Cases
Unpacking the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act: Implications for the Digital Asset Industry — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Podcast: Is Cryptocurrency a Security (like an orange grove)?
Navigating the Regulatory Waters: The SEC's Wells Notice to Uniswap and its Impact on DeFi — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Navigating the 2023 Regulatory Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Crypto Enforcement Actions - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Autorenewals Crossover Episode with The Crypto Exchange - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Autorenewals - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Crypto Year in Review 2022: Crypto Enforcement and the U.S. Treasury - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
On March 30, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, doing business as KuCoin, imposing a civil monetary penalty of $500,000 and permanently...more
Over the past year, governments and regulators globally, including in the U.S. and European Union, have taken measures to manage various aspects of cryptoasset activities. In the U.K., the government has continued its push to...more
As part of the ongoing consultations in the UK on a new regulatory framework for cryptoassets, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Consultation Paper CP25/41 (Consultation Paper)....more
On March 17, 2026, the SEC and CFTC jointly issued the Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets (“Interpretation”), providing the most...more
Crypto Exchanges Achieve, and Seek, OCC Charters; Stablecoin Study Published - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced that it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the...more
On March 26, 2026, mortgage provider Better Home & Finance and cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase announced a partnership with Fannie Mae to offer Fannie Mae-complaint mortgages backed by cryptocurrency from borrowers...more
We began this series with Part I: Where Are We? by reviewing the background, developments, and implications of current global and national regulatory and tax frameworks for digital assets. In Part II: What Can We Find Here? I...more
On March 2, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down another attempt by users of the decentralized crypto exchange, Uniswap Labs, to pin fraud by token issuers on the platform enabling...more
On March 26, a digital asset exchange, partnering with an online mortgage lender, announced the launch of what the companies described as the first mortgage product in the U.S. that allows borrowers to pledge crypto assets as...more
On March 17, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) jointly released interpretive guidance (the “Release”) clarifying when transactions in...more
It arrived in a customer’s inbox looking like any other promotional email from a major retailer. The branding was polished, the formatting familiar, and the sender appeared to be Nordstrom. The message offered a limited-time...more
On March 17, the Connecticut Department of Banking temporarily barred a cryptocurrency exchange from transmitting money and threatened possible civil penalties of up to $100,000 per violation over accusations that it charged...more
As cryptocurrency moves from the margins of finance into the mainstream, matrimonial practitioners are increasingly encountering digital assets in divorce proceedings....more
In a February 26, 2026, decision, Judge Carter of the Southern District of New York denied a motion to compel arbitration filed by cryptocurrency exchange Binance, exposing the company to the risk of certification of a large...more
On March 2, 2026, Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class-action complaint against the creator of a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and its...more
Please see below for this week’s Financial Markets & Innovation Weekly Update from Morrison Foerster, tracking how digital asset firms, regulators, and policymakers are shaping the future of financial markets. Covering...more
As business models shift and regulations adapt, boards will need to understand the opportunities and risks posed by the use of digital assets. Building on the blockchain technology that enables Bitcoin and other...more
Guilty pleas by a now defunct crypto exchange and its co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO), along with the recent arrest of its other co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) in the Eastern District...more
While most states address digital asset regulation through their money transmission regulatory regimes, a growing number of jurisdictions have transitioned toward specialized digital asset licensing. Following the lead of...more
OCC Issues Proposed Rule to Implement the GENIUS Act- On Feb. 25, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a 376-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Bulletin 2026-3) to implement the Guiding and...more
In BPROTOCOL Foundation v. Universal Navigation, Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed patent infringement claims against Uniswap, finding that the asserted...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has announced that it has begun legal proceedings in the English courts against global crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi) and persons unknown (being those individuals who operate...more
The agency itself recently stated IRS audits are fewer in number but increasingly aggressive based upon the "decrease in resources available for examinations." AI has become the agency's primary tool to identify tax return...more
On 15 December 2025, the UK Government published the final text of the secondary legislation (and accompanying explanatory memorandum) that brings cryptoassets activities within the scope of the UK regulatory perimeter....more
On January 29, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (AG Committee), led by Chairman John Boozman (R‑AR), advanced S. 3755, the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act (DCIA), on a party-line vote....more