10/27/2025 11:57:37 AM Gibraltar Regulatory Update: Virtual Asset Arrangements Now Fall Under The Financial Services Act. By Jerome Compson Gibraltar has today implemented a significant update to its financial regulatory framework, bringing virtual asset arrangements (“VAAs”)...
10/23/2025 8:18:59 PM OCC Grants Conditional Approval to First Full-Service Crypto Bank By Melissa Hall Marking a significant milestone in the acceptance of cryptocurrency into the world of traditional finance, the Office of the Comptroller...
10/21/2025 1:06:30 PM FCA Consults on Fund Tokenisation and Direct Dealing By Christopher Collins Ryan Hansen Thomas Laurer Neil Robson Edward Tran Ciara McBrien Eleanor Bines James Wells +5 more... Show less On 14 October 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper (CP25/28) setting out proposals to advance fund...
10/15/2025 3:53:39 PM The Rise of Agentic Commerce: What Google’s AP2 Protocol Means for Shopping and Marketing By Gian Pastore Liz Allen Google recently introduced Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) — an open standard to enable secure, agent-initiated payments across platforms....
10/13/2025 2:26:25 PM From Enforcement to Empowerment: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins Charts a New Regulatory Approach for Digital Assets By Carl Kennedy Michael Didiuk Alex Kim Nicholas Gervasi +1 more... Show less Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins promoted a forward-looking regulatory agenda centered on innovation,...
10/8/2025 6:16:55 PM CFTC Acting Chairman Pham Outlines a Technology‑Neutral Approach to Digital Assets and Agency Modernization By Carl Kennedy Alex Kim At the Futures and Derivatives Law Report Digital Asset Leadership Summit, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman...
10/8/2025 8:38:37 AM Innovation, trust, and the crypto compliance mindset By Munib Ali This article first appeared in an issue of GRIP magazine. Trust is the real currency in all financial markets. While crypto markets move...
10/1/2025 4:34:02 PM GENIUS Act: Payment Stablecoins Coming to a Retailer Near You (Maybe) By Sarah Rubenstein Polak The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) (S. 1582) establishes the first U.S. framework...
9/26/2025 3:12:34 PM FCA invites discussion on applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation and discussion paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for...
9/26/2025 3:10:03 PM FCA publishes proposals for applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for applying the...
9/26/2025 2:40:11 PM Copy of “Computer says no” – is this the end of the Bitcoin in the bin saga? By Aga Test Second User The world of crypto seemingly never ceases to produce interesting legal cases - from Dr Craig Wright’s misadventures in the English...
9/11/2025 4:44:38 PM US-EU Regulatory Divergence in Crypto-Assets: The Strategic Implications of the GENIUS Act and MiCAR Framework By Giuseppe D'Agostino Johannes Wirtz In the process of defining regulatory frameworks for crypto-asset markets, the United States and the European Union are emerging as the...
9/10/2025 3:28:08 PM Tornado Cash and the Legality of Mixers By Patrick Daugherty Ken Breen Phara Guberman On August 6, 2025, after a four-week trial in the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.), the jury in the Tornado Cash case reached an...
9/4/2025 4:16:38 PM CFTC-SEC Joint Statement Signals Accelerated Path to US Spot Crypto Trading By Dan Davis Alex Kim Michael Didiuk The CFTC-SEC Joint Staff Statement on “Project Crypto–Crypto Sprint” (Joint Statement) lands in the middle of an already-active policy...
8/25/2025 7:25:43 PM Wyoming Debuts First U.S. State-Issued Stablecoin — Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) By Gian Pastore Wyoming has officially launched the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), the first stablecoin in the U.S. issued by a public entity. Fully...
8/22/2025 5:07:44 PM Banking and Digital Assets: Key Takeaways from the President’s Working Group Report By Patrick Daugherty F. Phillip Hosp Natasha Dempsey On July 30, 2025, the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets (PWG) released “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital...