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Stablecoins: Navigating the Money Transmitter Minefield & Forthcoming Federal Regulatory Frameworks

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As digital assets gain traction across financial markets, stablecoins—cryptocurrencies pegged to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar—are emerging as a practical medium for capital contributions, settlements, and liquidity...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Focus on Fintech – Q4 2024

In this issue of Wilson Sonsini's Focus on Fintech, our attorneys discuss updates and developments from federal regulators, including those related to artificial intelligence in financial markets, regulated securities...more

Paul Hastings LLP

PHFintech: Crypto Policy Tracker

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With the 119th Congress set to take office in January, we’re here to keep you up to date on key developments in the fast-evolving landscape of crypto policy. As a reminder, each new Congress starts with a clean slate, meaning...more

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Crypto Regulation by any Other Name

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2022 was billed as the year regulation will descend on the cryptocurrency (“crypto”) and decentralized finance (“DeFi”) spaces. While it seems regulation may indeed be coming, it initially appears to be buried in lengthy...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.12.2019 | Top Story: Fed Holds Rates Steady And Looks to Stay There

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As expected, the Fed kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday while also signaling that “they would wait to see how the economy fared before making another move”....more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.10.2019 | Top Story: Chevron Concedes Anadarko Bidding War to Occidental

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Chevron has dropped its $33 billion bid for Anadarko, ending the energy industry’s “fiercest takeover battle in 15 years” and leaving smaller rival Occidental “poised to become the dominant force in the largest oil field in...more

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FinCEN Director Addresses Bureau’s Approach to Digital Currency and Financial Innovation

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On August 9, 2018, Kenneth A. Blanco, Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), delivered remarks at the 2018 (Legal) Tech Conference at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. ...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Week in Review - July 2018 #2

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U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - CFTC Issues Customer Advisory Urging Public to Use Caution When Buying Virtual Currencies - On July 16, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Cryptoasset Exchanges Respond to New York Attorney General’s Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative

On April 17, 2018, the New York Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) launched a Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative and sent letters to thirteen cryptoasset trading platforms requesting, through a questionnaire, disclosures on...more

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Cryptocurrency 101

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If you do not currently own Bitcoin, the odds are in the last few months you have thought about the merits (or lack thereof) of owning Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is a digital or virtual currency (commonly...more

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FinCEN Letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Purports to Thread Needle of Potentially Competing Jurisdictions by Regulators...

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As we previously have blogged, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) became one of the first regulators to wade into the regulation of cryptocurrency when it released interpretive guidance in March 2013 stating...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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AT&T has dropped plans to sell the Mate 10—the newest smartphone from China’s Huawei Technologies—just before the partnership was to be announced. AT&T gave no reasons for its abrupt reversal, but lawmakers have recently...more

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