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Meme Coins: Collectibles, Not Securities.

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On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (“CorpFin”) issued a Staff Statement announcing its view that meme coin transactions do not involve the offer and sale of...more

K&L Gates LLP

Asset Management Regulatory Year in Review 2024

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2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more

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Trump Administration 2.0: How the SEC's Approach to Crypto Could Change

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The election of Donald J. Trump as President could have a significant impact on the crypto industry given his campaign promise of a pro-crypto administration. President Trump will be able to appoint a new chair of the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: Oct. 1 Quarterly Review

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

Polsinelli

Assessing the Landscape: One Year into the SEC’s Litigation Against Major U.S. Digital Asset Exchanges

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The SEC’s litigation against the largest digital asset exchanges in America has been unfolding for over a year, beginning with the agency suing various Binance entities in June 2023, followed by actions against Coinbase...more

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Canadian Regulators Continue Enforcement Efforts Aimed at Offshore Crypto Platforms

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Canadian regulators want to ensure that crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs) know that they will not be able to evade Canadian and Ontario securities law sanctions by withdrawing from the Canadian market. As part of a...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

First-of-its-kind enforcement action sparks debate whether NFTs are securities

On August 28, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settled enforcement action against Impact Theory LLC (Impact Theory) for the unregistered sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that the SEC determined...more

A&O Shearman

In Denying Motion To Dismiss In Terraform Cryptocurrency Case, New York Federal Judge Rejects Key Aspects Of Ripple  Ruling,...

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On July 31, 2023, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York Judge Rakoff, denied cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs, Pte Ltd. (“Company”) and its founder’s motion to dismiss a suit that had...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: June 1, 2023

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

BakerHostetler

Fintech Firms Launch New Products; Crypto Guidance Published by CFTC, EBA, UAE; OFAC Adds Public Keys to SDN List; CFTC, NY AG...

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Crypto Firms Announce New Product Launches in Custody, Stablecoins, Wallets - According to a recent press release, Prometheum Capital has received the first-ever approval from the Financial Industry Regulation Authority...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Company to pay $45 million to SEC, states for unregistered crypto-lending product

On January 19, the SEC charged a Cayman Islands digital asset firm for allegedly failing to register the offer and sale of its retail crypto-asset lending product. According to the SEC’s cease-and-desist order ...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

CFTC Head Urges Congressional Action on Crypto while SEC Leader Says Crypto Rulemaking is “Years Away”

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In congressional testimony on Thursday, September 15, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam urged U.S. Senators to pass a bill that would explicitly grant the CFTC broad regulatory oversight...more

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Former Cryptocurrency Exchange Manager Indicted by DOJ and Charged by SEC: Is It 'Regulation by Enforcement'?

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On July 21, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the first time brought insider trading charges involving cryptocurrency assets. The SEC and DOJ charged a former...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

SEC Director’s Congressional Testimony Provides Further Insight into Enforcement Priorities

Recently, Gurbir Grewal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s director of the Division of Enforcement, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and...more

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SEC Alleges “Crypto Asset Securities” Insider Trading; Case Has Significant Implications For The Digital Asset Industry

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On July 21, 2022, the SEC charged three individuals with insider trading of digital assets via a scheme to trade ahead of multiple announcements regarding crypto assets being made available on a United States-based digital...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC and CFTC continue efforts to regulate cryptocurrency

Two important events occurred in the cryptocurrency space last week. The Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gave a speech regarding regulators’ role in effectively supervising markets in the era...more

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