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Taxing Solution, Settlement Smack Down, Involuntary Reaction, and Regulatory Risk

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Endo creditors seek to resolve U.S. government claims for $465 mln| Reuters - According to court documents filed last week, Endo and a group of the company’s lenders are offering up to $465 million to settle U.S. government...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Part I: NFT Lending — Legal Issues Involving Secured Transactions under the UCC, Pre- and Post-Article 9 and 12 Amendments

Despite the protracted crypto bear market, innovators in non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) are hard at work. Gone are the days when NFTs were merely profile pictures (“PFPs”) displayed on a pseudonymous social media account or...more

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[Hybrid Event] S&K Blockchain Symposium: Navigating the Storm - May 4th, New York, NY

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Please join Seward and Kissel's Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Group on Thursday, May 4, 2023 for the S&K Blockchain Symposium: Navigating the Storm. The event will feature multiple panels, with industry leaders who will...more

Alston & Bird

California DFPI Digital Asset Lending Regulatory Year in Review

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A&B ABstract: In December of 2022 California released an interagency progress report (“Report”) analyzing the current regulatory status of Web3, Crypto Assets, and Blockchain. The report was prepared pursuant to Executive...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Expansion of SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit portends more active enforcement

On May 3, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the expansion of its newly styled Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (Unit) (formerly known as the Cyber Unit), housed within its Division of...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Crypto Laboratories of Democracy

President Joe Biden’s executive order directing agencies to come up with a federal governmentwide approach to regulating digital assets appropriately garnered widespread attention. But as Justice Louis Brandeis once said1,...more

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Mareva Injunction over Cryptocurrencies in the Freedom Convoy Class Action

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The Significance and Implications For Persons Engaging With Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets - A series of protests and blockades in Canada against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, called the "Freedom Convoy" by...more

Troutman Pepper

TransUnion to Offer Credit Checks for Blockchain Lenders

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TransUnion recently announced it will make off-chain credit data available on public blockchain networks through Spring Labs’ ky0x Digital Passport, which enables Web3/Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications or smart...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Fintech Year in Review—2020

As we prepare to put 2020 in the rearview mirror, many of us will not have fond memories of the year. Quarantines, masks, social distancing, unspeakable tragedy, economic ruin for some industries. But the fintech world proved...more

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Federal Reserve Proposes Rules To Modernize Regulations That Implement CRA

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In the News. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) proposed rules to modernize the regulations that implement the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA); the Conference of State Bank Supervisors...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 5, September 2020

Three Important Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the Delivery of Consumer Financial Services - The world continues to come to grips with the daily changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools contemplate...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Banking and Fintech Transactions: 2020 Forecast - March 25th, 2:00 pm ET

Bank transaction activity has picked up as small and midsize banks look to adjust their business models to the digital economy. Some fintech companies have chosen to acquire or form their own banks. The clash between the new...more

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Landmarks Newsletter - Summer 2019

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It wouldn’t be the summer edition of Landmarks without our annual recap of the retail real estate industry’s largest event, ICSC RECon, which takes place every May in Las Vegas. Each year, RECon serves as a barometer for...more

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Innovation Enhances the Delivery of Consumer Financial Services

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FinTech and RegTech Trends to Watch - Much has been written about FinTech and RegTech in the last few years and, for many lenders, such terms aren’t wholly relevant to the day-to-day operations of their businesses – or are...more

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Can I Secure a Loan with Bitcoin? Part III

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In my previous articles, I discussed the challenges of using Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") to create and perfect a security interest in virtual currency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin. I also discussed...more

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Can I Secure A Loan with Bitcoin? Part II

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In my previous article, I discussed the challenges of using Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") to create and perfect a security interest in virtual currency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin. (I use...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

First Securities Lending Transaction Using Blockchain Technology Completed

It was reported this month that ING Groep NV and a major international bank recently completed the first live securities lending transaction settled using distributed ledger technology (“DLT”). The transaction involved the...more

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Blockchain and Secured Lending in Canada

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Blockchain, the peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology introduced in 2008 to support Bitcoin, has lately attracted attention for its potential uses in areas unrelated to the virtual currency. A recent Harvard Business...more

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