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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) New Guidance Financial Regulatory Reform

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CryptoLink - May 2025

In May 2025, the leadership from the SEC provided guidance on digital asset regulation in several keynote addresses and round tables. The SEC's activities in May 2025 suggest a deliberate movement towards establishing a more...more

Polsinelli

Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly; Highlights of the Last Two Weeks in Web3 Law: June 5, 2025

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The most important development of the last two weeks is likely the release of a revised bipartisan digital asset market structure bill in Congress, which now gives real momentum to the possibility of comprehensive...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets Issues New FAQ Guidance on Broker-Dealer Custody and Net Capital Treatment of Cryptoassets

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a significant step toward permitting broker-dealers to custody digital assets and toward accounting for such proprietary digital assets in a broker-dealer’s net capital...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Domestic Crypto Regulation in Spring 2025

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Last March, I wrote: “Howey Livin’? Domestic Crypto Regulation in 2024.” As elegantly foreshadowed by the hilarious title, the article covered the strange crypto regulatory moment of spring 2024: Bitcoin has been packaged...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Digital Dollars, Not Investments: SEC Staff Weighs in on Stablecoins

On April 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement clarifying that reserve-backed U.S. dollar stablecoins are not securities, at least under current law and...more

Carlton Fields

SEC Deep-Sixes Its Expanded “Dealer” Definition

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Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended its definition of “dealer” to require broker-dealer registration by some persons or entities previously considered securities “traders” not subject to such...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Staff Guidance on Private Equity Line Financings

The Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission released a new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretation, 139.13, relating to equity lines, and has withdrawn several C&DIs. ...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Issues MD&A Guidance

On January 30, 2020, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provided guidance (MD&A Guidance) regarding the disclosure of key performance indicators and metrics used in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Legal Update: Ring in the New Year with SEC Year-End Guidance

During the last two weeks of 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission offered guidance and reminders relating to the role of audit committees, international intellectual property and technology risks, and confidential...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Staff Announces Changes to Shareholder Proposal No-Action Request Process

On September 6, 2019, the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a statement regarding no-action requests to exclude shareholder proposals under Exchange Act Rule...more

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