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On April 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Divisions of Market Oversight, Clearing and Risk, and Market Participants issued two Requests for Comment (RFCs) on 24/7 trading and clearing of derivatives...more
After years of regulatory uncertainty, the Trump administration has signaled a new approach to digital assets, including by establishing a working group focused on digital assets and nominating crypto-friendly chairs to the...more
Friday, March 27, 2025, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) formally withdrew two crypto-related staff advisories, Staff Advisory No. 18-14 (advisory with respect to virtual currency derivative product...more
On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) and Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) announced in CFTC Letter 25-07 that they are withdrawing CFTC Staff Advisory...more
On February 11, the White House nominated Brian Quintenz to replace Caroline Pham as Chairman of the CFTC. He previously worked as the Head of Policy at a venture capital fund that invests in cryptoassets. Quintenz previously...more
The landscape of government enforcement, private litigation and federal and state regulation of digital assets, blockchain and related technologies is constantly evolving. Each quarter, Ropes & Gray attorneys analyze...more
On December 11, 2024, the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) hosted “Views from the Top,” featuring the following government officials from the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and FTC discussing current and future enforcement...more
The CFTC Division of Enforcement recently released its 2024 results, trumpeting its focus on large crypto matters that generated big headlines and even bigger recoveries, but resulted in a significant decline in total...more
Financial Firm Completes CBDC Pilot; Exchanges Launch P2P Trading Platform - A major U.S. financial services firm recently published a press release announcing that it has “successfully demonstrated capabilities of a new...more
On July 12, 2023, U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) proposed a revised version of their previously introduced crypto regulation bill to create better safeguards for the crypto industry...more
Crypto firm bankruptcies and resulting disruption in the crypto ecosystem will continue to exacerbate liquidity and regulatory concerns in this space. Signs of contagion are evident as prices of almost every cryptocurrency...more
Cryptocurrency has entered that stage, common to newly traded assets, where volume matters. When that happens, traders in a new frontier seem unable to resist the temptation to engage in wash trades to build their book and...more
This is the eighth part in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: anti-corruption. The tumultuous crypto events of 2022, combined with the heightened agency and executive...more
New Crypto Products Launch; Singapore Completes DeFi Pilot with Major Banks - In a press release published this week, a major U.S. cross-border payments and money transfer company announced a new service in its existing...more
On 14 September 2022, K2 Integrity hosted a webinar on considerations in the digital assets space. K2 Integrity Board Member Christopher Brummer and AML/CFT experts Mariano Federici and Alex Levitov discussed the current...more
Rob Musiala, a Counsel in the Digital Assets and Data Management group and the co-leader of our Blockchain Technologies and Digital Currencies team, breaks down everything you need to know about NFTs, all in 10 minutes or...more
A recent federal criminal action shows the depth of the U.S. government’s concern about the use of cryptocurrency (or virtual currency) to violate economic sanctions laws and the lengths to which it will go to charge such...more
A clearing organization for futures and securities was sanctioned US $20 million in aggregate by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly not having and following...more
Smart contracts, also referred to as chaincode in the Hyperledger world, are one of the most powerful aspects of blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). This “self-executing” code can receive various inputs and,...more
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
On Feb. 6, Jay Clayton and Christopher Giancarlo, the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), respectively, jointly testified before the Senate Banking...more