Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency

SEC News Roundup - June 2025

Fenwick & West LLP on 6/20/2025

Petition for Rulemaking with Respect to Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure - A group of financial services industry trade associations submitted a joint petition for rulemaking requesting that the SEC amend the...more

New Administration Outlook: SEC Crypto Task Force Leader Outlines Regulatory "Journey"

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/10/2025

On February 4, 2025, Commissioner Hester Peirce—head of the SEC's new Crypto Task Force—authored a Statement, posted on the SEC's website, titled "The Journey Begins." Her Statement analogizes from early childhood road trips...more

Agencies Issue Joint Proposal to Strengthen and Modernize CRA Regulations

Goodwin on 5/16/2022

Regulatory Developments - Agencies Issue Joint Proposal to Strengthen and Modernize CRA Regs - On May 5, the FDIC, the FRB and the OCC issued a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) to “strengthen and modernize” the...more

An Important Milestone - First Supervised Security Token Offering

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 7/22/2019

After a long wait, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has permitted a startup company to raise funds from the general public through a supervised security token offering (STO) under Reg A+ regulations....more

The Law of Facebook Is Not the Law of Small Companies

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 7/9/2019

In June, two seemingly unrelated events took place: during the first week of June the SEC filed suit in federal court against the company Kik Interactive, which raised about 100 million dollars in the summer of 2017 through...more

Initial Coin Offerings—A Singapore Perspective

Jones Day on 11/6/2017

As interest continues to grow in virtual currencies, blockchain technology and initial coin offerings, governments are evaluating the benefits and potential risks of these innovations, while considering numerous regulatory...more

SEC to ICO Players: Our Game, Our Rules

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 9/13/2017

On July 25, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published an investigative report (the “Report”) cautioning market participants that the offer and sale of digital assets such as “coins” or “tokens,”...more

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