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As the nation’s top markets regulator, Mr. Gensler was always going to be busy. But he was nominated during the unexpected trading frenzy in so-called meme stocks like GameStop and AMC Entertainment, which was driven in part by commission-free trading apps. He was confirmed for a five-year term on the day the crypto exchange Coinbase […]
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher D. Frey has joined the firm as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice and as a member of the Litigation & Trial Department. Frey has joined the firm’s New York office with plans to relocate and expand his practice into California’s […]
“It really is, in our opinion, a matter of when and not if” there is a bitcoin spot ETF, Sonnenshein said. “If the SEC can’t look at two like issues, the futures ETF and the spot ETF, through the same lens, then it is, in fact, potentially grounds for an Administrative Procedure Act violation.” Grayscale […]
For so-called fintech professionals in particular, take heed. The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Comptroller of the Currency have officially kick-started a range of burdensome, weighty and powerful regulatory initiatives pertaining to digital assets — and cryptocurrency is not their only target. Financial regulators […]