Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), New Regulations, Financial Regulatory Reform

SEC Cost-Benefit Analysis: A New Face and a New Role

Carlton Fields on 7/29/2025

Under the Trump administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of revamping its approach to the cost-benefit analysis it performs in support of its regulatory actions. These changes are being spurred...more

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

Woodruff Sawyer on 4/29/2025

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

Digital Financial Assets - Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Fire?

Allen Matkins on 4/21/2025

The application of the securities laws to digital financial assets has been fraught for lawyers and their clients. After taking a hard line that many of these assets were securities under the federal securities laws, the...more

Well, California Has Decided to Regulate Crypto

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/7/2023

On October 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 39 (Digital Financial Assets Law). This new law broadly empowers the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) to govern...more

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - August 2023 # 3

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/15/2023

To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week...more

Financial Services Legislative and Regulatory Update -- July 22, 2013

Mintz - Public Finance Viewpoints on 7/23/2013

In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; International; Miscellaneous; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - Yesterday marked the 3rd Anniversary...more