Mortgages, Blockchain

Structured Finance Spectrum - Summer 2024

Alston & Bird on 8/7/2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more

Revolutionizing Real Estate Sales and Development One Block at a Time (Part I of IV)

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 1/10/2024

As of late December 2023, Bitcoin was up more than 60% in the prior four months while another well-known cryptocurrency, Solana, was up over 240%. The cryptocurrencies were on their annual Fall bull run, but there seems to be...more

The Promise and Potential of Blockchain and New UCC Article 12

Mayer Brown on 12/13/2023

Executive Summary: In the summer and fall of 2022, electronic transactions were undergoing a sea change, but riding different tides: in the summer, the Uniform Law Commission approved a set of amendments to the Uniform...more

Real Estate & Construction News Round-Up 04/20/22

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 4/21/2022

Construction defects emerge in pandemic-era buildings, investor confidence is improving in China’s real estate market, the proptech field continues to show significant signs of growth, and more....more

Recent Transaction Transfers Ownership of Digital Mortgage Loans via Blockchain

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/25/2022

In a novel transaction for the blockchain and mortgage industries, a blockchain-focused financial services company and an investment firm announced the completion of a transaction involving the origination of digital mortgage...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 10

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/18/2021

4 Ways to Boost Blockchain in Consumer Finance - "Plenty of executives and industry leaders in the blockchain space are looking for clarity on financial regulation." Why this is important: The recent MIT FinTech...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2021

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 1/21/2021

All is Not Lost: Mitigating the Risk of Loss of a Delinquent Collateral Asset in the Era of Autonomous Zones - The birth of autonomous zones has led to uncertainty regarding the protection of a lienholder's collateral...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 6, September 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/24/2020

Morrisey, Other AGs Reach $330 Million Agreement with Student Loan Company - "West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and 47 other attorneys general have reached a $330 million, multistate agreement with a student...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 5, September 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/18/2020

Three Important Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the Delivery of Consumer Financial Services - The world continues to come to grips with the daily changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools contemplate...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/12/2018

Walmart’s retail efforts to keep pace with Amazon are well documented. Now it appears that the company’s refusing to concede the entertainment space, either, as evidenced by its new partnerships with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/28/2018

The DOJ has given Disney its official nod in its $71 billion bid for the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox, contingent on Disney’s divestiture of Fox’s 22 regional sports networks (a condition all about Disney’s ESPN...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/16/2018

SEC Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets - On March 7, 2018, the Divisions of Enforcement and Trading and Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission released a "Statement on...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/18/2018

The Dow closed above 26k yesterday for the first time on what some are dubbing the FOMO rally or the “melt-up” market....more

Financial Services Weekly News - July 2017 #2

Goodwin on 7/20/2017

Editor's Note - In This Issue. After making a splash with the finalized version of its Arbitration Rule, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed temporary adjustments to the reporting requirements for...more

Financial Services Report - Summer 2017

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/20/2017

EDITOR’S NOTE - Summer blockbuster season is officially upon us. Have you seen Wonder Woman yet? What about Guardians of the Galaxy Part 2? It’s déjà vu all over again with Baywatch, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien,...more

Financial Services Weekly News - January 2017 #3

Goodwin on 1/26/2017

Editor's Note - Opposition Emerges to OCC FinTech Charter. In advance of the deadline to submit comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) paper proposing a federal FinTech charter, the Conference...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/10/2017

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation—the company that “serves as the back end for much Wall Street trading”—has announced a big step forward in the embrace of blockchain technology to track and report transactions. IBM...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/12/2016

In a “highly anticipated” ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a three-judge panel has found the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional, holding that the current organization...more

A New Solution to an Old Problem

Goodwin on 8/19/2016

Citizens in many countries the world over are plagued by an inability to record their land interests in a reliable and secure registry. Inefficiency, corruption and nepotism are rife, leaving countless people at risk of...more

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