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Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act”), after it passed both the U.S. Senate by a vote of 68-30 and the U.S. House in a...more
Key Points - - On June 17, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed, with a 68-30 vote, legislation that would authorize and regulate the issuance of stablecoins. Referred to as the GENIUS Act, the bipartisan bill must be passed by...more
On July 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued guidance outlining disclosure expectations for crypto asset exchange-traded products, including both spot and derivative-based...more
On June 17, the U.S. Senate voted 68-30 to pass S.1582, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, known as the GENIUS Act (the Act). This represents a landmark effort by the U.S. Congress to...more
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with values tied to fiat currencies or other assets, and are often said to be “pegged to” a single or a basket of fiat currents and/or other assets....more
On May 21, 2025, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed the Stablecoins Bill, establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins–cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to an external asset or commodity. This marks an important...more
As previously summarized here, since SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda was named Acting Chairman on January 21, 2025, the SEC has significantly shifted its approach to cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement actions, including...more
While the House and Senate were out of session for the last two weeks, federal financial regulators and legislators took a wide range of actions impacting the future of digital asset policy. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott...more
The Staff noted that a stablecoin generally is not subject to SEC jurisdiction if it is not an investment and used solely for commercial activity....more
In this special crossover edition of the Payments Pros and Crypto Exchange podcast, Carlin McCrory is joined by colleagues Alex Barrage and Ethan Ostroff to discuss recent legislative updates surrounding payment stablecoins....more
On April 4, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw, the sole Democrat serving as a Commissioner, issued a statement critiquing the Division of Corporation Finance’s analysis in its...more
On April 4, 2025, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) issued a statement concluding that a narrow class of USD-backed, fully reserved, non-yield-bearing stablecoins (“Covered Stablecoins”) do...more
On April 1, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) submitted a letter to the House Financial Services Committee expressing concerns with an introduced draft of H.R. 2392—the Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability...more
On March 28, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) rescinded Biden administration guidance related to state-chartered banks' participation in "crypto-related activities" and published a new interpretation of the...more
In November of 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, joined by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), issued a report formally...more
In a break from restrictive Biden-era policies, OCC-supervised banks may now engage in crypto without supervisory nonobjection, potentially opening new avenues for innovation....more
ACI’s 8th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems will provide in-depth guidance on the latest regulatory developments at the Federal and State Level that you need to be aware of....more
In a recent speech, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler quoted the first chairman of the SEC, Joseph Kennedy, who noted, “No honest business need fear the SEC.” Unfortunately, Gensler failed to note that as the SEC often explains,...more