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Updates on Proposed Stablecoin Legislation: the GENIUS Act and the STABLE Act

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As Congress moves to enact comprehensive stablecoin legislation under the Trump administration, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have updated their respective payment stablecoin bills. Our recent Commentary...more

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Key Elements of the Proposed Credit Card Competition Act

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In June, Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Peter Welch, D-Vt., and J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, introduced the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023, which is a reintroduction of a substantially identical bill...more

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What financial services firms should know about the new UK 'failure to prevent fraud' corporate criminal offence

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Financial services firms are already subject to significant obligations to prevent financial crime. The proposed introduction of the new failure to prevent fraud offence will no doubt prompt the question within such...more

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Compliance Alert! Regulated Entities Gear Up for the UK's Economic Crime Levy

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If your organisation is both supervised under the UK Money Laundering Regulations (“MLR”) and your UK Revenue exceeds £10.2 million per year, if you are not already, you will need to prepare for the forthcoming Economic Crime...more

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EU Announces Final Text of Crypto-Assets Regulations

The Council of the EU published two information notes (13198/22) and (13215/22) yesterday, with the final text of the following two new regulations...more

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California Governor Orders Agencies to Create Transparent Regulatory Framework for Blockchain and Digital Assets

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California's governor issued an executive order requiring state agencies, led by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, to create a "transparent" regulatory framework for blockchain technologies and digital...more

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SEC Releases Staff Accounting Bulletin on Accounting, Reporting, and Disclosure Obligations for Crypto-Assets

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (“SAB 121”) on March 31, 2022. SAB 121 provides SEC staff’s views regarding accounting treatment of obligations incident to a reporting...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets: The Intersection of Climate Change and Cryptocurrencies

On March 9, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets (the “Executive Order”) that sets in motion a “whole-of-government” strategy to address the impacts of the rise...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help: President Biden Signs Executive Order on Digital Assets

Please forgive some members of the FinTech community for remembering President Ronald Reagan’s comment: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help.’” President...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Biden Executive Order Calls for Regulatory Proposals on Digital Assets and Central Bank Digital Currency

On March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order titled “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” (the “Order”).1 The Order directs a broad range of federal agencies to recommend legislative and...more

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President Biden Signs Cryptocurrency Executive Order

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” (the “Order”). This widely anticipated Order came as a pleasant surprise for both proponents and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New Biden Executive Order on Digital Assets

President Biden issued an executive order (“EO”) recently on “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets.” The EO calls for an aligned, all-of-government approach to digital assets, which the EO defines to include,...more

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White House Issues Executive Order Calling for Inter-Agency Study of Digital Assets

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President Biden's executive order calls for "whole-of-government" approach to studying risks and harnessing potential benefits of digital asset technologies. On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, President Biden signed a...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Detailing National Policy Objectives for Digital Assets

On March 9, 2022, the President issued an Executive Order (the “E.O.”) that articulates a high-level, wide-ranging national strategy for regulating and fostering innovation in the burgeoning digital assets space.  The...more

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Crypto Executive Order Seeks To Develop a Federal Regulatory Framework for Digital Assets

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Federal Agencies Ordered to Consider a National Digital Currency, Financial and Criminal Regulations. President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets sets forth an unprecedented...more

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US Financial Regulators Release Much-Anticipated Report on Stablecoins

On November 1, 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) released its much-anticipated Report on Stablecoins (Report). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of...more

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Regulating ESG October 2021 | Issue No. 146 - LSTA Issues New Credit Agreement Guidance

Last week, the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (the “LSTA”) circulated a revised draft of its Form of Revolving Credit Facility to its members....more

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FinCEN Proposes Crypto Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements

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Recently proposed regulations could present significant compliance burdens for the banks and money service businesses that engage in cryptocurrency transactions with unhosted wallets or wallets held in jurisdictions specified...more

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Financial institutions general regulatory news, October 2020 # 3

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Brexit: HM Treasury update on financial services Brexit statutory instruments HM Treasury has published an update on its work relating to statutory instruments (SIs) laid, or to be laid, under the European Union (Withdrawal)...more

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SEC Proposes New Rules that would Exempt Certain “Finders” from Registration as Brokers

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Securities and Exchange Commission currently takes the view that "finders" who introduce potential investors to a company must register as brokers if they receive compensation based on the amount of...more

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SEC proposes narrow broker-dealer registration exemption for finders

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new exemptive order on Wednesday, October 7, which would exempt certain “finders” from broker-dealer registration under Section 15(a) of the U.S. Securities...more

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Are Bank Regulators "Mellowing Out" on Cannabis?

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Federal bank regulators no longer require banks to submit suspicious activity reports (SARs) for legally authorized hemp business transactions, absent another required circumstance....more

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