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Bank Regulatory News and Trends - May 2025

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This regular publication from DLA Piper focuses on helping banking and financial services clients navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape....more

Fenwick & West LLP

SEC Staff Offers New Guidance on Crypto Disclosure, Stablecoins

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On April 10, the SEC staff articulated how existing disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws apply to offerings and registrations involving crypto assets....more

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Lyon, France- INTERPOL’s Newest Notice Is Silver (Part 3 of 3: President Trump Has A Crypto Business And He Disbanded The U.S....

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Our last 2 posts discussed INTERPOL’s new Silver Notices and how they relate to crypto, along with the current U.S. presidential administration’s reversal of crypto-related crime-fighting measures as the rest of the world...more

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Securities Enforcement Roundup – April 2025

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In this issue of our monthly Securities Enforcement Roundup, we highlight top securities enforcement developments and cases from April 2025. In April 2025: Crypto Enforcement Activity and Developments...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - May 8, 2025

Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more

A&O Shearman

ESMA final guidelines on preventing and detecting market abuse under MiCAR

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on the guidelines on supervisory practices for National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to prevent and detect market abuse under the Market in...more

Polsinelli

Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly; Highlights of the Last Two Weeks in Web3 Law: May 8, 2025

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As the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team gears up for Consensus 2025 next week in Toronto — where Stephen Rutenberg, Daniel McAvoy and Jonathan Schmalfeld will be attending — the regulatory momentum in Washington appears to be...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Draft legislation proposes shift in regulatory oversight of digital assets

On May 5, 2025, the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and Agriculture Committee released a draft bill that would shift oversight of most digital assets from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

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SEC Division of Corporation Finance Staff Issues Guidance on Crypto Assets

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As previously summarized here, since SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda was named Acting Chairman on January 21, 2025, the SEC has significantly shifted its approach to cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement actions, including...more

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Paul S. Atkins Sworn in as SEC Chairman

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On April 21, 2025, Paul S. Atkins was sworn in as the new Chairman of the SEC. Mr. Atkins was nominated by President Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025 in a 52 to 44 vote. He replaces...more

DLA Piper

Digital Transformation: eSignature and ePayment News and Trends - March/April 2025

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Today’s ever-shifting business environment means that consumers, businesses, employers, and employees all expect to transact digitally. To remain efficient and competitive, companies must digitally transform their businesses....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Navigating FinCEN’s Actions on Huione Group: Strengthening Defenses Against Money Laundering

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On May 1, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Huione Group, a foreign financial institution located in Cambodia. This proposal, enacted under...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cybersecurity Trends in the Digital Asset Space

After years of regulatory uncertainty, the Trump administration has signaled a new approach to digital assets, including by establishing a working group focused on digital assets and nominating crypto-friendly chairs to the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Trump and Congress Nullify IRS Reporting Rule for Digital Assets

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The federal rule that would have required crypto platforms to report users’ transactions to the IRS has officially been scrapped. President Trump signed a joint congressional resolution overturning the so-called DeFi...more

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Federal Banking Regulators Adopt a Permissive Stance on Cryptocurrency

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The federal banking regulators have each recently adopted a more permissive approach to the regulation of cryptocurrency activities within the banking sector. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Update on MiCA Implementation: Implications for Copy Trading Services

Since December 2024, cryptoassets and related services are regulated in the European Union by the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Although the regulation provides a comprehensive set of rules for issuers of...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FRB Rescinds Previous Guidance Regarding Crypto Activities in the Banking Sector

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FRB eases crypto restrictions on supervised entities in alignment with the new administration’s support for the digital asset industry....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Regulators withdraw crypto guidance, plan further clarity for banks

On April 24, the FDIC and the Fed announced they have retracted two joint statements concerning banking organizations’ activities related to crypto-assets. According to the agencies, this move aims to clarify that banking...more

Cooley LLP

‘Come In and Register’ – Now With Directions

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For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s invitation to crypto companies sounded simple: “Come in and register.” But there was no map, no guide and no obvious way forward – only uncertainty and risk. That changed on...more

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New Legislation Introduced, Federal Reserve Revises Guidance and SEC Hosts Custody Roundtable

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Congress is back in session this week after a two-week recess. Several new pieces of legislation were introduced, including one directing the secretary of commerce to spearhead federal blockchain policy initiatives, another...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - May 1, 2025

Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC Chairman Atkins champions crypto innovation

On Friday, April 25, 2025, newly sworn in SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins spoke for the first time in his new role at the SEC’s third roundtable in its series discussing crypto asset regulation called Know Your Custodian: Key...more

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The Trump Administration’s Reshaping of Digital Asset Policy

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Since assuming office on January 20, 2025, President Trump’s Administration, together with various federal agencies and Congress, have initiated several actions that have the potential to reshape the digital asset industry...more

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White House Establishes a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile: What It Is and What It Implies

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On March 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve capitalized by Government BTC and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile capitalized by other crypto assets. Creating the Strategic...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Enforcement Policies Suggest a Return to Basics - The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days

Significant changes to personnel, structure and operation are underway at the SEC, consistent with sweeping changes at federal agencies more broadly....more

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