Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R- WY) introduced new proposed legislation on June 7, 2022, which would classify the vast majority of digital assets as commodities, and empower the Commodities Futures...more
6/14/2022
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Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Digital Assets ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
FERC ,
FinTech ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Investment Contract ,
NIST ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Two important events occurred in the cryptocurrency space last week. The Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gave a speech regarding regulators’ role in effectively supervising markets in the era...more
11/14/2018
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Commodities ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On August 8, 2017, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously upheld the first-ever criminal conviction of a New Jersey futures trader for the manipulative trading practice known as...more
8/14/2017
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Commodities ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
High Frequency Trading ,
Indictments ,
Market Manipulation ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Spoofing