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Mayer Brown

Key House Committee Chairs Release Draft Bill on Digital Asset Market Structure: Bill Would Establish CFTC/SEC Regulatory...

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On May 5, 2025, the Republican committee chairs in the US House of Representatives with jurisdiction over digital asset legislation released a digital asset market structure discussion draft bill (the “Discussion Draft”). The...more

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The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, May 2025

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Key developments of interest over the last month include: draft legislation to regulate BNPL credit in the UK (in contrast to the de-prioritising of enforcement of BNPL regulatory breaches in the US); final confirmation of UK...more

K&L Gates LLP

United States: Staff Cedes Jurisdiction Over Certain Stablecoins

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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

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SEC staff takes a position on the security status of USD-backed stablecoins

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On April 4, 2025, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) issued a statement concluding that a narrow class of USD-backed, fully reserved, non-yield-bearing stablecoins (“Covered Stablecoins”) do...more

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Senate Hearing Advocates Limited Digital Asset Regulation Reform Including CFTC Regulation of Bitcoin and ETH

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On September 15, 2022, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (the “Ag. Committee”) held a hearing to discuss Senate Bill 4760, titled the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022 (the “Bill”)...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

In Depth: Regulation and Enforcement of the Digital Assets Markets, Part One

As more market participants, from consumers to major financial institutions and central banks of various countries, become active in the digital asset space, the U.S. regulators are ramping up their oversight activity related...more

Venable LLP

Bipartisan Bill to Regulate Digital Assets Introduced: Pathway to Comprehensive Regulation Remains Unclear, NFTs Not Addressed

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Last month, a bipartisan pair of senators released the first comprehensive cryptocurrency bill that, though it is unlikely to become law, will frame how Congress discusses future legislation. The sweeping draft from Senators...more

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Stablecoins: some key regulatory and enforcement initiatives of US regulators

During the past few months, the US Treasury, the US banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have pursued several regulatory or enforcement initiatives...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

PWG Issues Clarion Call for US Legislation on Stablecoins

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The report addresses the market risks and regulatory challenges presented by stablecoins and urges Congress to act quickly. On November 1, 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) in conjunction...more

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New US Digital Assets Bill Casts Wide Net

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An ambitious proposal could bring digital assets into the mainstream regulatory fold. During an eventful summer for the digital assets industry, it may have been easy to miss US Representative Don Beyer’s introduction of the...more

Morgan Lewis

What 2021 Has in Store for Stablecoin

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The year 2020 won’t soon be forgotten. Despite the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic presented on a global scale, 2020 ushered in new ways of thinking about stablecoin, a type of cryptocurrency that attempts to peg its...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - October 2020

Recent and significant regulatory and legislative events in the digital asset space demonstrate the evolving and expanding approach by U.S. and international regulators to the burgeoning digital asset markets. These...more

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