Financial Institutions, Cryptocurrency, Securities Fraud

Inside the Courts – May 2025

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/28/2025

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

SEC Speaks 2025: Key Takeaways from Division of Enforcement Panels

Ropes & Gray LLP on 5/27/2025

The SEC’s Division of Enforcement intends to remain a “cop on the beat,” and will refocus on traditional core enforcement areas, such as insider trading, accounting and disclosure fraud, market manipulation, and breaches of...more

2023 Securities Litigation Year in Review

Jones Day on 2/28/2024

During 2023, securities lawsuit filings rose for the first time in four years. Settlements declined last year; there were nine mega-settlements of more than $100 million, including a $1 billion settlement. Case filings...more

Traditional and Crypto Firms Across Globe Launch New Initiatives, UN Designs Blockchain Land Registry, Privacy Wallets Spark...

BakerHostetler on 12/14/2020

Cryptocurrency Firms and Legacy Financial Institutions Worldwide Make Crypto Moves - Two cryptocurrency firms filed applications this week with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become federally regulated banks...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/1/2018

Though he was apparently ready to go with his “verbal agreement with the Saudis” defense, Elon Musk capitulated to pressure “from his lawyers and investors of Tesla” and agreed to resolve all SEC allegations of wrongdoing,...more

Developments in Cryptocurrency in 2018

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/24/2018

• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff made official statements regarding when a token may or may no longer be a security • The SEC continued to bring actions related to cryptocurrency offerings against...more