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Mining Your Own Business: Tax and Estate Planning with Crypto

Dechert LLP on 2/14/2024

Cryptocurrency, a digital form of currency that uses cryptography for security, has become a significant part of the global financial landscape. As such, it has also become an important consideration in estate planning. This...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - March 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/16/2023

Circuits Split Over Whether Targeting Is Necessary for Seller Liability - Key Points - - While courts have long held that solicitations must be tailored to a particular audience to precipitate statutory seller liability,...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 5

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/18/2022

The Cryptocurrency Revolution and President Biden's Formal Recognition - Out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin sprang up like an insurgency, targeting both the unbridled activity of large financial...more

Bridging The Week - December 2019 #2

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 12/17/2019

The New York State Department of Financial Services proposed a self-certification regime for the approval of new digital coins by licensed virtual currency firms similar to the process applied by the Commodity Futures Trading...more

Blockchain Week in Review - May 2019 #3

Perkins Coie on 6/5/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - SEC Files Enforcement Action Against Alleged Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme - On May 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a complaint in the U.S....more

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

BakerHostetler on 6/20/2018

Class Actions - Finkly & Sons Co. Faces Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act Class Action - A former employee of steelmaker A. Finkly & Sons Co. filed a putative class action against the company in Cook County,...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 4/25/2018

A scary combination of rising bond yields (across the 3% Rubicon!) and a warning from Caterpillar (which called its expectation-beating performance for Q1 the “high watermark for the year”) helped propel stocks significantly...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/9/2018

Looking Out for Main Street: SEC Focuses on Retail, Cybersecurity and Cryptocurrency - The Commissioners and senior officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") addressed the public on...more

Highlights From SEC Speaks 2018 - Retail, Cybersecurity And Cryptocurrency

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/1/2018

The Commissioners and senior officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") addressed the public on February 23-24 at the annual "SEC Speaks" conference in Washington, D.C. Throughout the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/26/2018

U.S. Estimates that Cyber Hacks Cost Up to $109 Billion in 20 - The Council for Economic Advisors (CEA) issued a report this month, entitled “The Cost of Malicious Cyber Activity to the U.S. Economy,” which concludes that...more

Investment Services Regulatory Update - February 2018

Vedder Price on 2/13/2018

New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – SEC STAFF GUIDANCE AND ALERTS - SEC Staff Issues Guidance on Cryptocurrency-related Holdings - On January 18, 2018, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment...more

Priorities Begin to Emerge for Trump’s SEC

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/25/2018

The actions that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton has taken since the start of his tenure in May 2017 provide an indication of SEC priorities, including encouraging initial public offerings (IPOs)...more

In The Midst of Cryptocurrency Craze, Cybersecurity Threat Emerges

Saul Ewing LLP on 1/25/2018

Ernst & Young (E&Y) indicated in a report released on Monday, January 22, 2018, that more than 10 percent of initial coin offering (ICO) funds are lost or stolen in hacker attacks (almost $400 million), and that...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/13/2017

Big news out of Uber this weekend, where the company and its board resolved outstanding issues with Travis Kalanick in order to finalize a deal in which a SoftBank-led consortium of investors will buy up about $1 billion of...more

Blockchain Week in Review – October #8

Perkins Coie on 11/8/2017

Below is a summary of some of the significant legal and regulatory actions that occurred over the past week. This alert is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all such developments, but rather a selection of...more

Bridging the Week - October 2017

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 10/5/2017

Two Commodity Pool Operators Charged by CFTC with Failure to Supervise: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought and settled enforcement actions against two commodity pool operators for failure to supervise. In one...more

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 5/24/2017

In this episode Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the question of whether a company has a duty to disclose ransomware attacks. We consider it from the regulatory, legal, ethical, law enforcement, business, PR and some...more

Financial Services Weekly News - March 2017

Goodwin on 3/3/2017

Editor's Note - In This Issue. The New York Department of Financial Services issued its highly anticipated cybersecurity regulation in its final form, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued updated guidance...more

Back to the Future: 2017 [Expect Focus Life Insurance – December 2016]

Carlton Fields on 1/9/2017

- Should Your Company Purchase Bitcoin to Pay a Cyber Ransom? - NAIC Draws Line in CFPB Sandbox - NAIC’s Big Data Task Force Sets Charges for 2017 - Broker-Dealers Can Hold Customers’ Initial Checks ...more

In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - Week of January 3, 2016

WilmerHale on 1/12/2016

Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2015 - Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2016 with a list within a list—dig into First Round Review’s best...more

Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - October 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/23/2015

"Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" Part III - Why it matters: It is time for another installment in our continuing "Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" coverage into the ongoing constitutional challenges to the SEC's...more

This Week In Securities Litigation

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/25/2015

The Commission responded to critics of its administrative proceedings this week, proposing changes to the Rules of Practice which govern them. If adopted the new rules would modify the time period within which the actions...more

Financial Services Weekly News - September 2015 #4

Goodwin on 9/24/2015

Regulatory Developments - NYDFS Announces Approval of First BitLicense Application from a Virtual Currency Firm: The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced Sept. 22 that it has approved...more

Bridging the Week - September 2015 #2

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/22/2015

CFTC Says Virtual Currencies Are a “Commodity” Under Federal Law, Files Charges Against Coinflip for Operating an Unregistered Bitcoin Options Trading Platform - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed and...more

Bridging the Week - September 2015

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/15/2015

Alleged Flash Crasher's Formal Indictment Provides More Details Regarding His Purported Spoofing - The US Department of Justice filed a formal indictment against Navinder Singh Sarao in a US federal court in Chicago on...more

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