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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Private Civil Consumer Financial Services Litigation to Partially Fill CFPB Void - Part 2
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 26, 2025
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2025, The Tribute to Pope Francis Edition
CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 10, 2025, The Dark Money Corruption Edition
Navigating 2025: Trends in OFAC and DOJ Enforcement for Digital Assets — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 66 – The U.S. Strategic Reserve and the Emerging Multipolar Crypto World + Recent Developments in US Virtual Asset Regulation with Henri Arslanian and Andrew Fei
FINCast Ep. 40 – 21st Century Financial Warfare: Technology, Economy, & National Security
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Virtual Currency Regulations: Key Insights for the Payments Industry — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Fintech Focus Podcast | Crypto 2.0: What’s Next in the US?
On May 15, 2025, the Division of Trading and Markets (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of General Counsel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)...more
On May 15, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Trading and Markets (the “Staff”) published responses to certain frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) relating to crypto asset activities...more
On May 15, the SEC staff provided guidance to SEC-registered broker-dealers and transfer agents on how they can custody and recordkeep digital assets. According to the guidance, non-securities are not subject to the...more
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
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
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
Last March, I wrote: “Howey Livin’? Domestic Crypto Regulation in 2024.” As elegantly foreshadowed by the hilarious title, the article covered the strange crypto regulatory moment of spring 2024: Bitcoin has been packaged...more
As we recently reviewed in The First Two Months of the SEC Under President Trump, since taking office for the second time, President Trump has moved quickly to make changes throughout the federal government in keeping with...more
On April 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement clarifying that reserve-backed U.S. dollar stablecoins are not securities, at least under current law and...more
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On 4 April 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Division) issued a statement (Statement) providing that the offer and sale of certain “Covered Stablecoins” do not involve the offer and sale of securities within...more
As the Trump administration and Congress seek to establish clear digital asset regulation, uncertainty remains on whether federal agencies consider stablecoins to be "securities" under federal law....more
On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued guidance clarifying when certain stablecoins may not constitute securities under the federal securities laws.[1] This...more
The Staff Statement provides clarity that Proof-of-Work crypto mining does not involve securities, reducing regulatory uncertainty and enforcement risks for miners....more
On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) published a new staff statement intended to clarify the application of federal securities laws to meme coins....more
Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended its definition of “dealer” to require broker-dealer registration by some persons or entities previously considered securities “traders” not subject to such...more
This summer, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) published CSA Staff Notice 81-336 Guidance on Crypto Asset Investment Funds that are Reporting Issuers (the “Notice”) concerning funds that seek to invest in crypto...more
In the wake of mounting crypto bankruptcies and federal investigations into the alleged misappropriation of crypto assets, among other possible wrongdoing by market participants, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s...more
On December 8, 2022, the Division of Corporation Finance within the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published guidance on disclosure obligations related to recent disruptions in the crypto asset market. The Sample...more