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Crypto Exchange-Traded Products: Navigating the Intersection of Crypto and Securities

Jones Day on 8/21/2025

Direct ownership of crypto-assets or mere exposure to the value of crypto-assets is an investment decision, with both investment methods requiring specific approaches to mitigate and manage risks effectively....more

Tokenized Real-World Assets: Pathways to SEC Registration

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/10/2024

Demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is rapidly growing across the decentralized finance (DeFi) community, with growing interest among existing crypto-native participants and across the traditional finance industry...more

Climate in context: Geopolitics, business, and the board

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) on 4/16/2024

In this collaboration between the KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) and Eurasia Group, our aim is to help widen the boardroom aperture on the global climate challenge—where it stands, and what’s at stake—and to help boards...more

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent and Expected Funds, Regulatory and Tax Developments to Look Out For

Goodwin on 1/19/2023

Welcome to our January 2023 Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the non-listed funds sector. We have grouped the...more

Credit Funds: Riding the Sea of Change

Paul Hastings LLP on 6/13/2022

We are delighted to bring this edition of Spotlight Magazine to you after the disruption of the past two years and the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a sea of regulatory change that has evolved during this time, masked by...more

Investment Services Regulatory Update - January 2019

Vedder Price on 1/30/2019

New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – PROPOSED RULES – SEC Proposes New Fund-of-Funds Rule – On December 19, 2018, the SEC proposed new Rule 12d1-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which, if...more

Financial Services Weekly News - December 2018

Goodwin on 12/7/2018

Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules and amendments designed to promote research on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), registered closed-end funds, business...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/8/2018

U.S. Financial Industry Developments - Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act - The "Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act," signed by the President on May 24, amends...more

Funds Talk: February 2018

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/2/2018

Global Regulators Increasingly Shifting Focus to Cryptocurrency - After years of allowing cryptocurrency transactions to fly under the radar, financial market regulators are beginning to turn their attention to virtual...more

Global Regulators Increasingly Shifting Focus to Cryptocurrency

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/1/2018

Until recently, cryptocurrencies had largely avoided the regulatory spotlight. While financial market regulators monitored the emerging sector, they largely maintained a hands-off approach as it remained on the periphery of...more

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/25/2018

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more