Fintech

Fintech Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on financial technology. Coverage includes legal and regulatory developments in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin and initial coin offerings, as well as electronic payment systems, peer-to-peer lending, algorithmic trading and many other aspects of this fast-evolving area of the law.



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Latest News in Fintech

  • March 03, 2026

    7th Circ. Expedites Bank Appeal Of Ill. Swipe-Fee Law

    The Seventh Circuit granted banking and credit union trade groups' bid to fast-track their appeal over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act after they asked to schedule the case for a decision before the law banning swipe fees on tax and tip payments takes effect July 1.

  • March 03, 2026

    CFTC Chair Previews Perpetual Futures, Event Contract Rules

    U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday that his agency is pressing forward with plans to clear the way for cryptocurrency-favored derivative perpetual futures in a matter of weeks and circulate a proposal addressing prediction markets "in the very near future."

  • March 03, 2026

    Payroll Co.'s Poaching Suit Can Proceed, Ga. Judge Says

    Enterprise software firm invenioLSI must face a suit from a rival company alleging it conspired to engineer a "mass defection" of workers in 2024, after a Georgia federal judge ruled that it "did not have a legal right" to aid in a plan that led to several high-level managers' defections.

  • March 03, 2026

    Ex-SEC Attys Back Disgorgement Limits Before High Court

    Nearly two dozen former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys are among those urging the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to the agency collecting disgorgement from those accused of wrongdoing without first identifying victims of the alleged fraud at hand. 

  • March 03, 2026

    SoftBank-Backed PayPay Launches Plans For $1B IPO

    Japanese mobile payment app PayPay, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., said it anticipates a $1 billion initial public offering, represented by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and underwriters counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  • Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
  • Federal Reserve
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • U.S. Department of Justice
  • Self-regulatory organizations
  • State and international regulators
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • OCC Fintech Charter
  • Regulatory sandboxes
  • Bank Secrecy Act
  • Securities Act
  • Securities Exchange Act
  • Securities Investor Protection Act
  • Commodities Exchange Act
  • Federal and state guidance on fintech products
  • Federal and state legislation
  • International banking legislation and regulation
  • ENFORCEMENT
  • Cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering fraud investigations
  • Asset and credit freezes
  • False advertising of fintech products
  • Cybersecurity and privacy matters related to fintech companies
  • Spoofing
  • Federal criminal matters
  • State enforcement actions
  • LITIGATION
  • Intellectual property matters
  • Investor class actions
  • Challenges to federal or state regulations
  • TRANSACTIONS
  • Initial coin offerings
  • Mergers and acquisitions of fintech companies
  • Private equity and venture capital fundraising for fintech companies
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of law firm fintech practices
  • General counsel interviews

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  • Professors, students and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.