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

  • June 12, 2026

    5 Things To Know About Trump's Latest CFPB Nominee

    President Donald Trump's newest pick for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director has spent years sketching out a conservative vision for the agency that he could soon run, one that emphasizes minimalist rules, legal restraint and administrative procedure.

  • June 12, 2026

    Gensler Tells 6th Circ. 'Sports Bets Aren't Swaps'

    Former Wall Street regulator Gary Gensler told the appeals court overseeing Kalshi's prediction market battle with Ohio regulators that Congress didn't intend for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to become a nationwide sports betting regulator when it drafted swaps laws during his chairmanship of the agency.

  • June 12, 2026

    Robinhood Wins Final Approval Of $2M Order-Flow Deal

    A California federal judge granted final approval to a $2 million class settlement resolving claims that Robinhood affected how customers' orders on the trading platform were handled by failing to disclose financial interests.

  • June 12, 2026

    Fintech Lender Sued Over Arbitration Clause Omissions

    Affirm Inc. has been sued for allegedly making misleading statements and omissions in its mandatory arbitration clause, withholding the company's 100% win rate in contested arbitrations, and not disclosing that its chief legal and compliance officer sat on the arbitrator's governing board.

  • June 12, 2026

    2nd Circ. Backs Bankman-Fried's 25-Year Fraud Conviction

    The Second Circuit on Friday upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction and an $11 billion forfeiture order in an opinion that found the ex-CEO's claims that he could have made FTX customers whole didn't matter in the face of the government's "robust" evidence of his role in the fraud that felled the cryptocurrency exchange.

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  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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  • Federal Reserve
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  • Federal Trade Commission
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  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • OCC Fintech Charter
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  • 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
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  • TRANSACTIONS
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