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Cryptocurrency Financial Institutions Mergers

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – May 2025

Key Points - - The SEC’s Crypto Task Force acknowledges past hostility toward digital assets and aims to create more sensible regulations. - Tokenized securities face complex regulatory challenges, including compliance...more

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The crypto question: Digital currency dealmaking set to boom in 2025

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Dealmaking within the US and Europe is climbing as crypto assets increasingly enter the mainstream - Dealmaking in the digital currency space is flourishing, buoyed by strong industry growth, political backing and supportive...more

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Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - March 20, 2025

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Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more

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Regulation in Flux, March 2025 - OCC Gives Green Light to National Bank Fintech Business Model

On March 17th, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) conditionally approved the application for the newly renamed SmartBiz Bank N.A. (“SmartBiz Bank”) to change its business model in support of its fintech...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

OCC’s Hood reportedly pledges regulatory easing for community banks and fintech advancement

On February 18, it was reported that Acting Comptroller of the OCC, Rodney Hood, announced plans to ease regulations for community banks, focusing on facilitating mergers and exploring financial technology. Speaking at a...more

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Litigation 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Outlook: A view of the landscape in Europe and the UK

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Welcome to our Litigation 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Outlook. In this report, we examine the legal trends that have shaped the commercial landscape in Europe and the UK and explore how these developments are likely to...more

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Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - May 2024

Spotlight - Macquarie Ruling Raises the Bar for Securities Fraud Claims - Key Points - - On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed and vacated the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie...more

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Insights – June 2023

This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the latest trends in shareholder activism, the scrutiny companies are facing over their ESG disclosures and employment considerations for using AI in the workplace, among...more

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Fintech in Canada Q1 2023: A Pivotal Moment

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Welcome to Bennett Jones' quarterly Fintech in Canada update, where our fintech lawyers address timely issues shaping the industry. We look at what industry participants need to know in the areas of financial regulation,...more

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Federal Reserve Board Issues Denial to Custodia Bank

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The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) rarely issues denials for applicants to become members of the Federal Reserve System. Senator Elizabeth Warren has even criticized the FRB for their number of approvals – although in the...more

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Mixed Signals: US M&A FY 2022

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Although the record-breaking deal activity of 2021 spilled over into 2022, headwinds in the first quarter developed into a significant slowdown during the rest of 2022, with an expectation of continued slowness as we enter...more

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Stocks Continue Weeks-Long Slide to Start the Week

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Despite Friday’s confirmation of another month of robust job growth, Wall Street couldn’t shake a “relentless decline” that’s going on 6 weeks now and was fueled on Monday “by new data from China that added to concerns about...more

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Chaos at the FDIC—What Portends for Banks in 2022

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Recent events at the FDIC leading up to the resignation of Chairman Jelena McWilliams foreshadow a challenging year for banks in 2022. The unprecedented power struggle at the FDIC whereby a majority of the Board initiated a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2021 - Samsung Shakes Up Leadership, Consolidates Business Units

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Samsung surprised the business world today by replacing the “heads of its three major business units and merg[ing] the company’s mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit.” The moves mean the South Korean...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.27.2021 | Top Story: Insurance Giants Aon and Willis Towers Watson Call Off Planned Merger After DOJ...

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U.S. insurance giants Aon and Willis Towers Watson have shelved their plans for a massive tie-up over an inability to resolve concerns raised by the DOJ’s antitrust division and a desire to avoid the lengthy timeline...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.22.2021 | Top Story: Drug Companies Strike $26B Deal with State AGs Over Opioid Crisis

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As previewed earlier this week, four companies associated intimately with the opioid epidemic—three distributors and one drugmaker—have finalized a deal with state Attorneys General in which they will pay $26 billion to...more

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Financial institutions M&A: Sector trends - January 2019: The relentless march of fintech

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2018 has been a transformational year for fintech M&A. Deal values and volumes have reached new heights as established financial institutions pin hopes on well-placed bets to deliver competitive edge and market share. VC and...more

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