Crypto trading platforms worldwide should be aware of recent SEC actions if they provide access to US persons or persons within the U.S. for trading.
Global financial regulatory authorities have begun to take action and...more
Crypto asset trading platform operators should prepare to comply with securities regulations if the crypto assets traded are securities.
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..Finding that the digital assets traded on the BitFunder platform...more
The SEC’s latest enforcement action and its Chairman’s statement clarify the application of securities laws to ICOs and cryptocurrency markets.
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On December 11, 2017, the US Securities and Exchange...more
Regulators responded to a narrow question about trading bitcoin-based securities, with orders that should not limit innovation in bitcoin technologies.
On March 10, 2017, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more
What is cryptocurrency?
There is no one standard definition of cryptocurrency. At the most basic level cryptocurrency—or digital currency or virtual currency—is a medium of exchange that functions like money (in that it...more
Cryptocurrency is on the rise...and so are enforcement actions.
In less than a decade, cyptocurrencies have grown from a novelty reserved for those dealing in the illicit into a robust platform embraced by financial...more
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Six things every investor, start-up, financial institution and payment processor should know about the future regulation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency derivatives.
With the quickly developing market for...more
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As the first of their kind, the proposed regulations may add legitimacy to virtual currencies, but the new regulatory regime could stifle innovation and development.
On July 23, 2014, the New York State Department of...more