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April 07, 2026
The vast expanse of litigation over sports offerings on prediction markets was jolted by a Third Circuit decision in favor of Kalshi this week, likely further speeding the issue's already fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 07, 2026
A Texas federal judge ordered a company that hosts cryptocurrency data centers to pay more than $6 million to a United Kingdom-based bitcoin mining company for illegally using its mining equipment and violating a contract between the companies.
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April 07, 2026
An investor of cloud-based artificial intelligence lending platform Upstart Holdings Inc. hit the company and its top brass with a proposed class action Tuesday, alleging they misrepresented the accuracy of the company's AI model and how it was affecting Upstart's revenues and growth.
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April 07, 2026
Exchanging bitcoin for U.S. currency can qualify as transferring funds under the criminal statute against operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, the Second Circuit held Tuesday in an opinion backing the conviction of a man found guilty of laundering bitcoin that he was told came from drug sales.
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April 06, 2026
The Blockchain Association on Monday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to stay the course on its plans to issue exemptions for crypto projects, firing back at Citadel Securities' assertions that decentralized projects should broadly face the same obligations as traditional SEC-regulated intermediaries.
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April 06, 2026
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has urged the Seventh Circuit to rule that his state may fully enforce its Interchange Fee Prohibition Act against national banks and other financial institutions, defending its ban on tax-and-tip swipe fees amid a banking industry appeal.
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April 06, 2026
The head of the nation's largest bank on Monday raised doubts about the Trump administration's plan to overhaul bank capital rules, casting it as an improvement on a Biden-era draft while saying it still includes some "frankly nonsensical" aspects.
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April 06, 2026
The Trump administration's latest budget plan calls for a more than 13% increase in spending for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, with nearly half of its total requested staffing increase for the agency slated for positions focused on deregulation related to the Bank Secrecy Act.
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April 06, 2026
A Second Circuit panel Monday seemed responsive to Citibank's arguments that consumer-initiated electronic wire transfers are carved out from the Electronic Funds Transfer Act under a longstanding exemption in the statute, in a suit from the New York attorney general over the bank's response to online wire transfer fraud incidents.
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April 06, 2026
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. will be the federal government's financial agent in helping implement the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for children called Trump accounts, the U.S. Treasury Department said Monday.
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April 06, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel on Monday backed a lower court's order blocking New Jersey from enforcing a sports gambling ban on trading platform KalshiEx, with the dissenting judge calling Kalshi's actions a "performative sleight" meant to hide that its products are sports gambling.
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April 06, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-profile corporate disputes, insider trading allegations, contract fights and significant rulings shaping fiduciary duty and deal litigation.
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April 06, 2026
Google can't scrap a jury verdict in favor of a female executive who claimed she was treated less well than male colleagues and passed over for promotion because she complained, a New York federal judge ruled, while slashing a $1 million punitive damages award to $250,000.
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April 03, 2026
The cryptocurrency software developer who sued the government to protect his forthcoming project from any potential accusations of unlicensed money transmission is asking the Fifth Circuit to keep his lawsuit in play after a Texas federal judge tossed the challenge for failing to show a substantial threat of prosecution.
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April 03, 2026
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has steered Franklin Templeton's acquisition of a crypto investment management firm that will serve as the base of the finance giant's new crypto arm.
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April 03, 2026
A Utah federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit against financial services firm Plaid Inc., ruling that the asserted patent covering authentication processes for third-party transactions was directed to an abstract subject matter.
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April 03, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.
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April 03, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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April 03, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has hired a former U.S. Senate staffer and a lawyer with experience at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as deputy general counsel overseeing regulation and litigation at the agency.
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April 02, 2026
Payments giant PayPal faces a proposed investor class action alleging the company concealed slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business, precipitating a trading price drop when the company disclosed a growth decline at the end of 2025.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is seeking public feedback on a proposal that would counsel states to ensure their stablecoin regulatory regimes implement much of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's coming federal rules for issuers of the stable-value tokens.
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April 02, 2026
The Tenth Circuit agreed Thursday to rehear en banc banking groups' request for the court to take another look at their challenge to a Colorado law intended to curb high-cost lending in the state, vacating a November ruling that restored the law.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission continued its bid to assert "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets on Thursday with a trio of suits against Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois regulators over the states' attempts to shut down certain event contract trading as unregistered gambling.
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April 02, 2026
Coinbase said Thursday that it has received the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's conditional approval to charter a national trust bank, a move that would position the crypto giant to broaden its business offerings under federal oversight.
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April 02, 2026
Private equity firm L Squared Capital Partners said Thursday that it raised $2 billion in its fifth fund offering with advice from Vedder, targeting companies in sectors such as education and industrial technology.