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Virtual Currency (aka Digital Currency or Digital Money) is a type of currency or medium of exchange that is not issued by any government nor guaranteed by a government currency. Despite lacking legal tender status, Virtual Currency is still traded and exchanged in some environments, typically online environments or communities. Bitcoin is the most well-known form of Virtual Currency. less -

CFPB Publishes Consumer Response Annual Report

Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/8/2024

The CFPB published its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2023, which discusses the consumer complaints received by the CFPB in that year and how companies responded to those complaints. The CFPB monitors consumers’...more

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - October 2023 # 4

Troutman Pepper on 10/25/2023

To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

SEC Releases 2021 Examination Priorities

Goodwin on 3/8/2021

In this Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations released its 2021 Examination Priorities and issued a risk alert noting that “Digital Asset Securities” entail characteristics and...more

New York Approves Nationwide Licensing Tool for Virtual Currency Business Activity Companies

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 1/14/2019

New York State has taken measures this year to modernize its approach to regulation for blockchain-based companies. Even before Assembly Bill A8783B established a government task force to study the effects of blockchain and...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/12/2018

Walmart’s retail efforts to keep pace with Amazon are well documented. Now it appears that the company’s refusing to concede the entertainment space, either, as evidenced by its new partnerships with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/23/2018

The US House included the revised Volcker Rule that we’ve discussed in a broader package of Dodd-Frank reforms that it passed with bipartisan support last night. The bill—ostensibly aimed at easing restrictions on small to...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/14/2018

Breakingviews on what the White House’s intervention into Broadcom’s [dropped] bid for Qualcomm could mean for the US-based chip maker. [Hint, it involves China, and it’s not great for the big Q]....more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/16/2018

The SEC is blocking the proposed sale of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to a group of Chinese investors based on “unresolved questions” over the “proposed ownership structure and concerns for the regulatory agency’s ability...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/15/2018

Nordstrom’s doing what it can to fight the seemingly inevitable decline of many retailers in the face of online competition. The family-run company has been revamping stores, amassing e-commerce companies, and launching new...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 12/8/2017

CFTC Statement on Self-Certification of Bitcoin Products by CME, CFE and Cantor Exchange - On December 1, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") issued a Statement on the Self-Certification of Bitcoin...more

Vermont Enacts Loan Solicitation License, Amends Other Financial Regulation Licensing Provisions

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/5/2017

Entities engaged in the business of loan solicitation are now required to be licensed with the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation following the recent enactment of Act 22. Loan comparison websites, lead generators,...more

Financial Services Weekly News - January 2017 #3

Goodwin on 1/26/2017

Editor's Note - Opposition Emerges to OCC FinTech Charter. In advance of the deadline to submit comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) paper proposing a federal FinTech charter, the Conference...more

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Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/10/2017

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation—the company that “serves as the back end for much Wall Street trading”—has announced a big step forward in the embrace of blockchain technology to track and report transactions. IBM...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/12/2016

In a “highly anticipated” ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a three-judge panel has found the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional, holding that the current organization...more

Financial Services Weekly News - July 2016 #4

Goodwin on 7/28/2016

Editor's Note - What Exactly Is Bitcoin? In a case featuring a sting operation beginning with meetings in a coffee shop, ice cream store and hotel lobby and ending with the sale of bitcoins to an undercover Miami Beach...more

State Banking Regulators Issue Annual Report

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/27/2016

What were state banking regulators focused on last year? A new report from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) reveals that state regulators "increased coordination and collaboration between state regulators and...more

Financial Services Legislative and Regulatory Update -- November 11, 2013

Mintz - Public Finance Viewpoints on 11/11/2013

In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - Last week ended with a stronger than expected jobs report at plus...more

Financial Services Law -- Nov 08, 2013

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/8/2013

FDIC Cautions Financial Institutions About D&O Insurance - Noting a rise in the use of exclusions in insurance policies for executives at financial institutions, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation urged banks to...more

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