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The federal banking regulators have each recently adopted a more permissive approach to the regulation of cryptocurrency activities within the banking sector. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal...more
The IRS issued Notice 2025-19, inviting the public to submit recommendations for items to include in the IRS’s 2025-2026 Priority Guidance Plan. The IRS uses the Priority Guidance Plan to identify and prioritize the tax...more
Last March, I wrote: “Howey Livin’? Domestic Crypto Regulation in 2024.” As elegantly foreshadowed by the hilarious title, the article covered the strange crypto regulatory moment of spring 2024: Bitcoin has been packaged...more
The Federal Reserve Board ("Board") softened its stance on regulation of crypto activity by banking organizations by rescinding supervisory letters that created hurdles for crypto-asset activities and by joining the Office of...more
The OCC has removed “reputational risk” from its handbooks and guidance and the FDIC is moving to do the same. ...more
As we recently reviewed in The First Two Months of the SEC Under President Trump, since taking office for the second time, President Trump has moved quickly to make changes throughout the federal government in keeping with...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) have both recently taken actions and issued statements that indicate a more permissive bank regulatory approach to...more
On 4 April 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Division) issued a statement (Statement) providing that the offer and sale of certain “Covered Stablecoins” do not involve the offer and sale of securities within...more
On April 7, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo for all department employees titled “Ending Regulation By Prosecution.” ...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its Handbook Notice 128 which (among other things) confirms Handbook changes made by the Digital Securities Depositories Instrument 2025 (FCA 2025/14). The instrument...more
On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued guidance clarifying when certain stablecoins may not constitute securities under the federal securities laws.[1] This...more
On March 28, the FDIC issued updated guidance clarifying the process for FDIC-supervised institutions to engage in crypto-related activities. The guidance rescinds and replaces prior instructions issued in 2022 and makes...more
The FDIC has rescinded an earlier Financial Institution Letter establishing a prior notification requirement for FDIC-supervised institutions that wish to engage in specified crypto-related activities and has clarified that...more