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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.
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April 01, 2026
Robinhood has launched a federal lawsuit seeking to shield itself from potential Washington state enforcement action over its prediction market offerings in the wake of Attorney General Nick Brown's Friday announcement that he's going after Kalshi for allegedly breaking Evergreen State gambling laws.
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April 01, 2026
April is the coolest month, at least for appellate aficionados, featuring numerous important arguments with famous litigants, including U.S. senators, delivery apps Grubhub and Uber Eats, impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs, prediction platforms Kalshi and Robinhood, and a political giant known as the Velvet Hammer.
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April 01, 2026
The founder of crypto payments firm Evita on Wednesday admitted to what prosecutors say was a scheme to launder over half a billion dollars in cross-border transactions through the U.S. financial system, including funds held by sanctioned Russian banks.
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April 01, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked the D.C. Circuit to let it proceed with a new plan to lay off roughly half of its remaining staff, arguing this latest downsizing proposal moots concerns that led to a lower-court injunction freezing efforts to slash its workforce.
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April 01, 2026
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. examiners last year cited banks for the fewest number of federal consumer protection violations since at least 2018, while the agency initiated half as many consumer protection-related enforcement actions as it did the year prior.
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April 01, 2026
Federal prosecutors took issue Wednesday with a convicted former software executive's push to reduce the amount of money he needs to pay back in his $35 million fraud case, telling a Seattle federal court that Nevin Shetty shouldn't be able to offset his restitution obligation with cryptocurrency tokens.
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April 01, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed cases against five defendants accused of manipulating the cryptocurrency markets through wash trading, telling a Massachusetts federal court it will not pursue monetary remedies against one convicted fraudster who had already consented to an agency settlement.
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April 01, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wednesday announced a New York federal court had entered an order resolving fraud charges against the former chief engineer of defunct cryptocurrency investment platform FTX.
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March 31, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's enforcement chief said Tuesday that the agency plans to give entities a "clear path" to avoiding cases if they self-report issues early, but warned that the agency plans to staff up to pursue fraud and manipulation, including in burgeoning prediction markets.
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March 31, 2026
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman signaled Tuesday that changes could be on the horizon for a set of longstanding rules that limit banks' lending to their own executives and other insiders, identifying them as an upcoming target for reconsideration.
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March 31, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's recent proposal to give retirement plan fiduciaries legal cover to select a broader range of investments aims to reduce ERISA litigation, but attorneys on both sides of the bar say they expect the rule to face legal challenges if finalized as proposed.
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March 31, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Tuesday that it is dropping its requirements for large banks to keep contingency plans for handling severe financial stress scenarios, finalizing the withdrawal of guidelines that date back to the Obama administration.
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March 31, 2026
An Ohio federal judge sent a gambling loss recovery suit lodged against Kalshi, Robinhood Markets, Webull Corp. and other prediction market companies back to an Ohio state court, ruling its claims do not hinge on a federal question.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's illicit finance watchdog called Monday for banks to step up monitoring for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, issuing new guidance on flagging suspicious activity, which came as officials also moved to incentivize financial crime reporting with new draft rules to offer tipster rewards.