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Inside the Courts – May 2025

Key Points - - The SEC’s Crypto Task Force acknowledges past hostility toward digital assets and aims to create more sensible regulations. - Tokenized securities face complex regulatory challenges, including compliance...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - May 2025 #2

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U.S. Fintech Companies Announce Stablecoin Initiatives - Several major U.S. fintech companies recently announced stablecoin initiatives. In one development, Mesh, a Dubai-based digital asset startup, announced that it has...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2025 #2

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Digital Asset Companies Announce New Partnerships, Acquisitions, Products - A recent press release announced that Ripple, a U.S. fintech and digital asset infrastructure provider, has agreed to acquire Hidden Road, a prime...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - March 2025 #4

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Digital Asset Companies Announce Strategic Acquisitions - According to a recent press release, a major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, a U.S. retail futures trading...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - November 2024 #4

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Stablecoin Initiatives Announced by Fintech Companies, DeFi Protocols - Major U.S. payments firm recently announced plans to enable “disbursement partners” to use the PYUSD stablecoin to settle cross-border money...more

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Bipartisan Proposal Would Not Tax Staking Rewards Until Time of Sale

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On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, U.S. Congressmen Drew Ferguson (R-GA) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC) introduced a bill, the Providing Tax Clarity for Digital Assets Act, to codify the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the acquisition...more

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Blockchain Tech's Role as Driver of M&A Action Evolves

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The landscape of mergers and acquisitions is undergoing a seismic shift powered by the adoption of distributed ledger and other blockchain derivative technology across industries. Recent challenges in the cryptocurrency...more

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State of the Fintech M&A Landscape: Market Trends and Regulatory and Enforcement Considerations

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Three months into 2023 and the fintech landscape looks wildly different than this time one year ago. Global economic uncertainty clouds the fintech industry, with it facing challenges from rising interest rates, significant...more

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Five things you need to know about… investing in Web 3.0

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Despite the recent market turbulence for cryptocurrencies and associated high profile scandals, investment in Web 3.0 assets continues as investors look to take advantage of depressed valuations and corporations continue to...more

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Down but not out: Crypto takes a hit in 2022 but is not going anywhere

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Never has the digital asset space experienced such a succession of high-profile implosions and steady flow of negative mainstream press coverage, leaving many to ask—what next? The crypto industry has endured arguably its...more

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Today in Tax: Digital Assets in Mergers & Acquisitions—Three Things Every Seller Should Know

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Acquisitions in industries related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology exploded in 2021 in comparison with the preceding two years. Early data suggest that 2022 will be another record year for these acquisitions. This...more

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Opendoor to Pay $62 Million to Settle FTC Claims That It Misled Homeowners

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Online home buying platform Opendoor Labs will pay $62 million to the FTC “to settle claims that it used misleading marketing practices to persuade people to sell their homes on the site.” According to the Commission, the...more

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The Laws of Fashion: What's Trending in 2022

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The fashion industry has certainly seen its fair share of change over the last year given consumer trends, geopolitical & public health issues, innovation in technology and legal developments and we don’t anticipate that...more

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M&A in the Ever-Changing Fintech Landscape

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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

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: What the Supreme Court Ruling in Alston v. NCAA Means for the Future of College Sports

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“The NCAA is not above the law.” Those seven words capped Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s searing concurring opinion issued in connection with Monday’s (June 21) unanimous (9-0) U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alston v. National...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - December 2020

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U.S. Developments - Legislation - Congress Members Introduce Stablecoin Legislation - On December 2, 2020, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Congressmen Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) and Chairman of Task Force on...more

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Financial institutions M&A: Sector trends - January 2019: The relentless march of fintech

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2018 has been a transformational year for fintech M&A. Deal values and volumes have reached new heights as established financial institutions pin hopes on well-placed bets to deliver competitive edge and market share. VC and...more

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