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Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024?

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In 2023, the digital asset industry demonstrated remarkable resilience amidst significant challenges, including the dissolution of several digital asset financial services companies, numerous bank failures, and a $4.7 billion...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

UK financial regulators issue new authority on securities “sandbox”

On April 3, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England released a consultation paper seeking comments on their proposal to implement the Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), a new regime for financial firms...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 8th Forum on FinTech & Emerging Payment Systems - April 9th - 10th, New York, NY

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

BakerHostetler

Crypto Products Launch in Custody, Web3 Wallets, Debit Cards, Stablecoins; Regulators Address Stablecoins; OFAC and DOJ Announce...

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Crypto Custody Providers Launch Institutional Focused Offerings - According to a recent press release by BitGo, a major U.S. cryptocurrency custody provider, BitGo’s GoNetwork and Copper’s ClearLoop have entered into a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Reserve Issues Guidance on Supervision of “Novel Activities” by Banks, Impacts Bank-Fintech Partnerships

The Federal Reserve Board recently issued two Supervision and Regulation Letters that provide guidance on the agency’s supervision of novel activities and the process such as fintech partnerships, crypto-related activities,...more

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Fed Provides Details of Novel Banking Activities and Cryptocurrency Supervisory Program

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On August 8, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) issued a press release providing additional information on its Novel Activities Supervision Program (Program) to monitor novel activities in the banks it oversees. Novel activities...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Insights into Central Bank Payments Innovation: Tokenized Money, DLT-based Infrastructures, and Public-Private Sector...

The head of the Federal Reserve’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC), Per von Zelowitz, joined Wilson Sonsini partner Jess Cheng for a conversation on the central bank’s payments innovation initiatives regarding the future of...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Crypto Love is a Battlefield

The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s. Where critics see a passing fad with little actual utility or a lawless...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - October 2020

Recent and significant regulatory and legislative events in the digital asset space demonstrate the evolving and expanding approach by U.S. and international regulators to the burgeoning digital asset markets. These...more

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BakerHostetler Blockchain University: Bitcoin – Understanding the Phenomenon

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The Bitcoin Network is the world’s first implementation of blockchain technology, and bitcoin is one of the world’s most widely used cryptocurrencies. In many respects, the blockchain market started with bitcoin, and so the...more

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Banks Invest in Developing a Digital Blockchain Settlement System

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Late last month, several of the world’s largest banks invested $50 million in a digital cash settlement project with the aim of developing a more efficient clearing and settlement system. ...more

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Blockchain Provides Opportunity for Financial Services Companies

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The global financial system is a network that efficiently moves trillions of dollars among billions of people every day, but it’s constantly threatened by fraud and crime....more

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Allen & Overy's weekly update on Key Regulatory Topics - 23 March 2018 - 28 March 2018

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BREXIT - Please see the Prudential Regulation section for updates on: (i) the record of the FPC meeting held on 12 March; and (ii) HMT’s recently published letter on the EC’s proposed package of reforms in relation to BRRD...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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AT&T has dropped plans to sell the Mate 10—the newest smartphone from China’s Huawei Technologies—just before the partnership was to be announced. AT&T gave no reasons for its abrupt reversal, but lawmakers have recently...more

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Financial Services Quarterly Report - Third Quarter 2017: Global Update: Regulators Focus on Initial Coin Offerings

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Since January 2017, more than $2 billion has been raised through the rapidly growing market for so-called “token sales” or “initial coin offerings” (ICOs). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on July...more

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BCBS Consults on the Implications of FinTech for Banks and Supervisors

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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“BCBS“) published a consultative document (BCBS415) on the implications of FinTech for banks and their supervisors. The BCBS set up a task force to assess how FinTech will affect...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Services Report - Spring 2017

EDITOR’S NOTE - In like a lion, out like a lamb—it works for weather; does it work for new administrations? We’ll have to wait and see. We’ll have to wait and see about the length of CFPB Director Richard Cordray’s...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review

Financial Industry Developments - OCC Discusses Marketplace Lending - On September 13, 2016, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry discussed marketplace lending's risks and associated policy questions. He...more

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