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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

CFTC To Reorganize Task Forces and End ‘Regulation by Enforcement’

On February 4, 2025, CFTC Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham announced that the agency was reorganizing the Division of Enforcement’s nine task forces “to combat fraud and help victims while ending the practice of regulation by...more

Cornerstone Research

SEC Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Dropped 30% in the Last Year of the Gensler Administration

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Enforcement during Gensler administration was considerably higher than during the previous administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought 33 cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions in 2024, the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

U.S. Regulators File Complaints for Digital Asset Market Manipulation and Misappropriation

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint on Jan. 9, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Avraham Eisenberg. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...more

BakerHostetler

Top NFT-Related Cybersecurity, Phishing, Hacking and Other Risks in 2022

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The continued growth of the market for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in 2022 has helped shape the zeitgeist of what has been referenced colloquially by some as the “fourth industrial revolution,” defined largely by network effect...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC’s Enforcement of Fraudulent and Manipulative Pump-and-Dump Scheme in Crypto Commodities

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has two levels of jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). First, there is an exclusive (or regulatory) jurisdiction over “derivatives” on “commodities,”...more

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FINRA, Following the SEC, Prioritizes Supervision of Digital Assets in 2019 “Priorities Letter”

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On January 22, 2019 FINRA, the self-regulatory organization for U.S. broker-dealers, released its “Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter” for 2019. A number of of FINRA’s hot topics for 2019 should be of interest...more

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