Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
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
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
Navigating 2025: Federal Legislative and Regulatory Updates on Stablecoins and Decentralized Finance — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
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
Compliance Tip of the Day: Use of Blockchain in Compliance
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?
Unpacking the Fifth Circuit's Landmark Tornado Cash Decision — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Your Digital Legacy
Understanding the DFPI's Proposed Rules: A Deep Dive Into California's Digital Financial Assets Law — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Understanding the DFPI's Proposed Rules: A Deep Dive Into California's Digital Financial Assets Law — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Navigating the Dark Side of Crypto: Crime, Compliance, and Consumer Protection – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Embracing Innovation: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Crypto Regulation - #22
Crackdown on DeFi? An Examination of the CFTC's Enforcement Action Against Uniswap — The Crypto Exchange
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
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
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
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
FRB eases crypto restrictions on supervised entities in alignment with the new administration’s support for the digital asset industry....more
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 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
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
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
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
Significant changes to personnel, structure and operation are underway at the SEC, consistent with sweeping changes at federal agencies more broadly....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
The Federal Reserve has announced multiple decisions to rescind existing requirements for crypto-asset activities. The April 24 announcement included the rescission of a 2022 supervisory letter that required state member...more
The Federal Reserve Board ("Board") softened its stance on regulation of crypto activity by banking organizations by rescinding supervisory letters that created hurdles for crypto-asset activities and by joining the Office of...more
On April 7, the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Todd Blanche issued a memorandum entitled “Ending Regulation By Prosecution,” detailing a significant shift in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) approach to digital assets....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
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week....more
In a January 27 client alert, we discussed final regulations issued on December 30, 2024, covering tax reporting requirements applicable to certain decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms operating as noncustodial brokers of...more
Paul Atkins has taken the reins of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). After being confirmed by the Senate on April 9, Atkins officially began his tenure as SEC Chairman on April 21. His arrival is expected to...more
In this episode of PE Pathways, Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Thao Le, John Ford, and John Falco discuss the potential regulatory impacts of the Trump administration on the private equity industry. The conversation covers...more
In just a few weeks, the landscape for crypto policy has continued to shift dramatically. The president signed into law the repeal of an IRS rule that would have expanded the definition of “broker” to capture DeFi protocols;...more
The application of the securities laws to digital financial assets has been fraught for lawyers and their clients. After taking a hard line that many of these assets were securities under the federal securities laws, the...more
On April 10, 2025, the SEC’s newly formed Crypto Task Force held the second of its promised series of roundtables in the SEC’s “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity” initiative. Titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place:...more
On April 10, 2025, President Trump signed into law a measure1 that repeals the final regulations relating primarily to persons who are front-end service providers that operate decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, which...more