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Latest News in Fintech

  • May 19, 2025

    Senate Advances Stablecoin Bill After Dem Backers Return

    The U.S. Senate's proposal to regulate stablecoins is headed to the floor after lawmakers voted to close debate on the bill Monday evening, clearing a procedural hurdle after first stumbling earlier this month when Democrats pulled support to pursue further negotiations.

  • May 19, 2025

    Real Estate CEO Gets 87 Months For $63M Crowdfund Fraud

    The former CEO of a real estate investment firm who copped to ripping off investors in a crowdfunded $63 million development scheme was hit with a seven-plus-year prison sentence Monday from a Georgia federal judge who said the financier's "addiction to optimism" had been his ruin.

  • May 19, 2025

    Binance Calls FTX Ch. 11 Clawback Suit 'Legally Deficient'

    Binance has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to dismiss FTX's lawsuit seeking to recover $1.76 billion that was transferred to Binance, accusing the estate of FTX of trying to "shift the blame" for that company's November 2022 collapse.

  • May 19, 2025

    SEC's 'New Day' Could Cause Financial Crisis, Member Warns

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins on Monday promised a "new day" for the agency that could bring a host of changes around private fund investments, cryptocurrency and the collection of market data, but the commission's sole Democrat warned that new leadership was playing a "dangerous game" that could lead to a 2008-style financial crisis.

  • May 19, 2025

    MicroStrategy Faces Investor Suit Over Bitcoin Strategy

    Analytics software company MicroStrategy was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging that it downplayed the risk of major financial losses that would follow an update to its crypto accounting methodology.

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  • POLICY & REGULATION
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  • Asset and credit freezes
  • False advertising of fintech products
  • Cybersecurity and privacy matters related to fintech companies
  • Spoofing
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  • LITIGATION
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  • Investor class actions
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  • TRANSACTIONS
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  • General counsel interviews

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