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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInClaudius Modesti, Director of Enforcement and Investigations, to Leave PCAOB
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced today that Claudius B. Modesti will leave the PCAOB this month after 14 years as the director of the Division of Enforcement and Investigations. Mr. Modesti joined the Board in May 2004 as the PCAOB’s first enforcement director and led the team that built the enforcement group from […]
A View from Virginia: Is It Ethical for Lawyers to Accept Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies? – Slaw
Unless some serious security measures are built into Bitcoin, we wouldn’t recommend that you invest any serious wealth with the virtual currency. Certainly, some of the other virtual currencies are better protected than others, but you still might want to think long and hard about accepting Bitcoins or other cryptocurrency as lawyers. The bulk of […]
Crypto Exchanges’ Search for Regulatory Certainty – New York Takes First Mover Advantage – Lexology
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) last week announced that it had authorized Paxos Trust Co. LLC (formerly itBit Trust Co.) to offer a permissioned, blockchain-based post-trade platform settlement service, and has granted a virtual currency license to Genesis Global Trading Inc. With these authorizations, DFS has now approved seven firms for […]
Barclays fraud charge setback a ‘punch in the gut’ for Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is under fire over its handling of a five-year investigation into Barclays, after fraud charges against the lender were thrown out last week. Southwark Crown Court dismissed all charges against Barclays over an £11.8bn emergency cash call backed by Qatar at the height of the financial crisis, allowing the bank […]