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Pending Changes to Anti-Money Laundering Program Requirements for MSBs and Other Financial Institutions

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 8/20/2024

Money services businesses (MSBs), a category which includes money transmitters (e.g., PayPal and other payment facilitators), as well as administrators and exchangers of convertible virtual currencies (e.g., Bitcoin...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - June 2024 #3

BakerHostetler on 6/17/2024

EigenLayer TVL Surpasses $20B; New Self-Custodial Wallet Features Launch - According to recent reports, the total value locked (TVL) on the Ethereum network-based EigenLayer restaking protocol recently surpassed $20...more

KuCoin and Founders Charged with Operating Illegally as Money Transmitter and Futures Commission Merchant

Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/5/2024

Last week, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment against global cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin and two of its founders, Chun Gan and Ke Tang, for allegedly conspiring...more

DOJ Reaches Groundbreaking Criminal Settlement with Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao (Part I of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 12/12/2023

On November 21, 2023, The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced settlement agreements with Binance Holdings Limited (“Binance”), the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Changpeng Zhao (affectionally known as...more

Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance and its Founder Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

King & Spalding on 11/27/2023

AML Developments - What You Need to Know - On November 21, 2023, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for violating anti-money laundering...more

Bitzlato Cryptocurrency Exchange Founder Charged with Processing $700 Million in Illicit Funds

The Volkov Law Group on 1/25/2023

On Wednesday, January 18, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) unsealed a criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York charging Russian-national Anatoly Legkodymov, a senior executive at Bitzlato Ltd....more

Crypto Trading Platforms and Bankruptcy Law: Are Clients Protected?

Tonkon Torp LLP on 7/21/2022

Cryptocurrency investors, who were already in the icy clutches of the so-called “crypto winter,” now have another reason to shiver. Insolvency issues are cropping up with some frequency among crypto companies, which is...more

NFT Lawyer – 5 Things You Must Consider Before Hiring

Oberheiden P.C. on 5/3/2022

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital assets that are sharply rising in popularity. Every day, individuals are launching new NFT projects with similar or new features compared to prior NFT projects. NFTs are attractive to...more

How does El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Impact U.S.-based Virtual Currency Exchanges?

Woods Rogers on 7/15/2021

In our recent article on the legal framework governing virtual currencies, we briefly discussed the distinction between money transmitters and virtual currency exchanges. In short, transmitters are entities that convert fiat...more

Crypto, DeFi, and Money Transmitter Laws: Navigating the Maze

Holland & Hart LLP on 6/18/2021

On January 1, 2021, the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 became law. Under the law, Congress gave the Treasury Department power to declare that cryptocurrency is a monetary instrument and that certain cryptocurrency...more

Scared Of Your Clients’ Involvement With Cryptocurrency?

McGlinchey Stafford on 5/28/2021

Cryptocurrency, and its most-noted asset Bitcoin, has been breaking into the mainstream press. While most lawyers have heard terms like “blockchain” and probably even know a few people who have been deeply interested in the...more

State Regulations on Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technologies (Updated March 2021)

Carlton Fields on 4/19/2021

Introduction: There exists no uniformity with respect to how businesses that deal in virtual currencies (also known as "cryptocurrencies") such as Bitcoin are treated among the states. For these proprietors, often the first...more

Non-Fungible Tokens: The Blockchain Technology Raising Legal Issues

ArentFox Schiff on 4/2/2021

Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are digital assets that run on blockchain. The value of NFTs largely stems from the idea of scarcity. Collectors of NFTs can own unique digital assets like art, sports highlights, or songs which...more

MSB or Not MSB? That Is the Question (for Determining Applicability of Anti-Money Laundering Rules)

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 1/26/2021

Over the last 20 years, commerce, finance, and banking have become increasingly digital. Anti-money laundering (AML) regulators have found themselves catching up with the pace of technological innovation.1 As AML regulators...more

Bitcoin Is “Money” For Purposes Of D.C. Money Transmission Law, Says Federal Court

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 8/17/2020

A recent federal district court ruling in a criminal anti-money laundering case suggests that the transmission of virtual currency on behalf of another person requires a state money transmission license—even if the state’s...more

State Regulations on Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technologies (Updated July 2020)

Carlton Fields on 7/15/2020

There exists no uniformity with respect to how businesses that deal in virtual currencies (also known as "cryptocurrencies") such as Bitcoin are treated among the states. For these proprietors, often the first question asked...more

U.S. man charged with operating darknet-based bitcoin 'mixer' that laundered $300 million

Hogan Lovells on 2/18/2020

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted a man from Ohio for running Helix, a darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service that is alleged to have laundered bitcoins worth $300 million....more

CSBS Launches Three Online Tools for the Financial Services Industry

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/3/2019

On August 21, 2019 the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (“CSBS”) launched three new online tools designed to help non-bank financial services companies navigate state regulations and protect against cyber security risks:...more

FinCEN Publishes Guidance Pertaining to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 6/26/2019

On May 9, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the US Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) issued guidance relating to how its regulations apply to certain businesses that transact in "convertible virtual currencies"...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

State Regulations on Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technologies - (Updated)

Carlton Fields on 4/24/2019

There exists no uniformity with respect to how businesses that deal in virtual currencies (also known as "cryptocurrencies") such as Bitcoin are treated among the states. For these proprietors, often the first question asked...more

Blockchain Week in Review - April 2019 #2

Perkins Coie on 4/18/2019

U.S. Developments - Blockstack Files With SEC for Regulation A+ Token Sale - Blockstack, the New York-based blockchain software provider, has announced that it intends to make a $50 million token offering that would use...more

Financial Services Quarterly Report - First Quarter 2019: A U.S. Regulatory Patchwork Quilt: Cryptocurrency and Money Transmitter...

Dechert LLP on 4/18/2019

According to its original design, Bitcoin was intended to reduce market participants’ need to rely on “financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments.”1 While Bitcoin and other...more

FinTech Forward: Blockchain, ICOs, and Cryptocurrencies

K&L Gates LLP on 2/19/2019

In this episode, Jeremy McLaughlin and Dan Cohen discuss blockchain use cases, and the regulatory trends and associated frameworks for ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. In particular, they provide an overview of the application of...more

Blockchain Week in Review - February 2019 #2

Perkins Coie on 2/15/2019

U.S. Developments - Florida Court of Appeals Rules That Direct Sales of Bitcoin Constituted Money Transmission and the Sale of Payment Instruments - Reversing the order issued by the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, the...more

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