The vote marks the first time the U.S. Senate has passed significant digital asset legislation and puts the industry one step closer to regulatory clarity for certain stablecoins....more
6/23/2025
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Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
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Financial Regulatory Reform ,
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U.S. Treasury
U.S. House lawmakers introduced the bipartisan CLARITY Act of 2025 proposing a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets that would delineate agencies' oversight roles, establish a provisional registration regime...more
6/4/2025
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Regulatory Reform
The Situation: On September 17, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") approved a proposed rule ("the Proposal") that would establish new recordkeeping requirements for FDIC-insured depository institutions...more
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The Situation: Recently, two judges in Southern District of New York were required to apply the Howey test in separate cases to decide whether sales of certain crypto assets were investment contracts, and thus...more
8/22/2023
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Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Stablecoins
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The Situation: For the first time, the Economic Report of the President (the "Report") includes a chapter on digital assets....more
4/5/2023
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) ,
CFTC ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
California's new Digital Financial Asset Law ("DFAL") will impose a variety of regulatory requirements on digital asset companies and cryptocurrency exchanges. Governor Newsom is expected to sign the DFAL into law, and new...more
Recent measures from U.S. lawmakers and Nasdaq to impose additional requirements on U.S.-listed China-based companies could have wider implications.
On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Holding Foreign...more
7/13/2020
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation