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Deeper Dive: Understanding the 2023-24 Crypto Threat Landscape

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As the Web3 and digital assets ecosystem continues to grow, hacks, scams and other threats remain a major cause for concern and a potential impediment to broader adoption. Data from various sources indicates that after a year...more

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Crypto Products Launch; Bitcoin Ordinals Project Sells Out; U.S. EIA to Survey Miners; OFAC and DOJ Announce Crypto Actions;...

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New Crypto Indices Launch; Crypto Firms Announce Product Integrations - According to a recent press release, SIX, a major Swiss stock exchange and global financial information provider, has launched new SIX Reference Rate...more

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SEC Approves Spot Bitcoin ETFs But Gensler Still Disapproves of Crypto

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On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved eleven applications for spot exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) tracking Bitcoin. This landmark moment for the crypto asset industry has been over...more

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Digital Asset Theft Loss Deductions are More Complicated Than You Think

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Taxpayers can take a tax deduction with respect to “theft” losses that result from an illegal “taking of property” done with criminal intent. Among various other types of criminal activities, fraud is treated as theft under...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements for Public Companies: Applying Old Standards to New Risks

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a final rule that requires registrants to provide enhanced and standardized disclosures regarding “cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: October 2022

New CFPB Guidance Identifies Fee Practices That Constitute UDAAP Violations The CFPB has issued new guidance about what it pejoratively characterizes as “junk fee” practices by banks that the agency believes are likely to...more

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Crypto Platforms Achieve Foreign Approvals; DOJ Seizes Crypto Ransomware Funds; CFTC Adds Crypto Firms to RED List; Crypto Fraud...

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Foreign Regulators Approve Crypto Platforms; Ethereum Approaching PoS - According to recent reports, several major cryptocurrency platforms have obtained regulatory approval from Italy’s Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM)...more

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Crypto Payment Offerings Launch; Exchanges Achieve Foreign Approvals; Ukraine Legalizes Crypto; Regulators Issue Warnings; $28M in...

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A large U.S.-based financial services company launched its crypto services arm last week, providing consumers with a platform to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). According to reports, the...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

News of Note for the Internet-Minded – AR Defense Systems, VR Adventures and Defrauding Bots

This week’s News of Notes includes a controversial use of facial recognition technology, stories highlighting AI’s role in both energy production and consumption, the continued use of ransomware and bots for criminal...more

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Financial Stability Board Issues Report Assessing Risks to Financial Stability From Crypto-Assets

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On February 16, the Financial Stability Board issued an updated “Assessment of Risks to Financial Stability from Crypto-assets,” concluding that crypto-asset markets are fast evolving and could reach a point where they...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 10th Edition of Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery - January 24th - 25th, Miami, FL

ACI’s and C5’s 10th Edition of Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Miami conference is returning on January 24 – 25, 2022 in person! Deemed as the foremost, can’t-miss event for the Fraud community, it gathers the pre-eminent...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New Strides in Crypto-Asset Regulation

On November 23, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released Interpretive Letter 1179 (the “Letter”), which is the culmination of a review of prior Interpretive Letters on cryptocurrency and related...more

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Ether-Backed Loans and Blockchain Solutions Announced; New Crypto Guidance from CFTC, WEF, Basel, Texas and El Salvador; DOJ...

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Bank Offers Ether-Backed Loans, Auction and Property Sales Accept Crypto - Digital asset bank Anchorage recently announced that its institutional clients will now be able to obtain Ethereum-backed loans through the bank’s...more

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Recovering the ransom: High Court confirms Bitcoin status as property

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The High Court has determined that Bitcoin (and other similar cryptocurrencies) can be considered property under English law, and could be the subject of a proprietary injunction. The Court granted the injunction to assist an...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.10.2020 | Top Story: Volvo May go Public Via Merger With Owner’s Geely Automobile Holdings

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Volvo’s owner, Li Shufu, is mulling over a move to combine the carmaker with his publicly traded Geely Automobile Holdings—a play that would take Volvo public and “unify the bulk of billionaire Li’s growing stable of...more

Hogan Lovells

“Of Ransoms, Bitcoin, and Injunctions”: English High Court grants subrogee insurer proprietary injunction over ransomed Bitcoin

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In a gripping tale sure to excite die-hard Potter fans everywhere, the English High Court has granted a so-called ‘Harry Potter injunction‘ (i.e. a protective injunction against persons unknown) restraining the dissipation of...more

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UK Court Confirms Bitcoin Status as Property for Certain Proprietary Claims

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A U.K. court has granted an interim proprietary injunction over Bitcoin held in an account of a cryptocurrency exchange after it had been transferred there as part of a cyber attack on a Canadian insurance company. The...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - November 2018 #4

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s view that most cryptoassets issued as part of initial coin offerings and presales to ICOs are securities was challenged by a federal court in California when it denied the agency’s...more

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