Fintech

  • September 29, 2025

    Ex-Frank CEO Gets 7 Years Over Soured JPMorgan Deal

    Frank founder and former CEO Charlie Javice was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison following her conviction at trial for conning JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the now-shuttered student financial aid startup for $175 million by lying about its user base.

  • September 29, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    A Delaware vice chancellor expressed disappointment and concern over what she says is a "breakdown" in "civility and respect" that has emerged in recent Delaware corporate litigation. A $30 million settlement was approved in the five-year running Match.com reverse spinoff suit, and the top brass of Estée Lauder were hit with a derivative suit for allegedly covering up the company's reliance on prohibited, duty-free "gray market" sales of its products in China.

  • September 29, 2025

    NY's Top Financial Services Regulator Is Stepping Down

    The head of the New York State Department of Financial Services is stepping down next month and will be replaced on an interim basis by the chief of its fintech-focused innovation division, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

  • September 29, 2025

    Therapist Admits Sending Patient's Funds To Scammers

    A Massachusetts psychologist will plead guilty to charges that he used a patient's accident settlement funds and borrowed money from a relative to invest in what turned out to be a cryptocurrency romance scam, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

  • September 26, 2025

    CFPB Hires Ex-Lobbyist For Top Policy Job Amid Rollbacks

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has tapped a veteran financial industry lobbyist for a top policymaking job that will position him to spearhead the Trump administration's push to roll back regulation at the agency, Law360 has learned.

  • September 26, 2025

    Trump Says Cook Can't Rely On 'Mantra' Of Fed Independence

    The Trump administration Friday fired back at Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's argument that the Fed's independence is at stake if the president is allowed to fire her, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Cook invokes "the mantra of Federal Reserve independence" to impose removal protections Congress never enacted.

  • September 26, 2025

    Atty Facing Crypto Fraud Charge Can't Block Evidence At Trial

    A suspended Pennsylvania attorney's requests to exclude certain evidence from his upcoming October cryptocurrency fraud trial were largely shot down by a judge who found, among other things, that the requests should have taken the form of earlier motions to strike certain allegations from the government's indictment. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Wu-Tang Album May Be Trade Secret In Shkreli Suit, Judge Says

    A New York federal judge has found that a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album could be considered a trade secret in a novel decision that made significant trims to a cryptocurrency project's lawsuit against the album's former owner Martin Shkreli, but the judge kept in play claims that he misappropriated the project's trade secrets.

  • September 26, 2025

    SEC To Weigh Waivers Alongside Enforcement Settlements

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins announced Friday the agency will return to a practice of allowing firms to request waivers from follow-on consequences of enforcement actions while they pursue settlement discussions to resolve their case.

  • September 26, 2025

    Kalshi, Robinhood Fight Tribes' Bid To Block Sports Contracts

    Trading platforms Kalshi and Robinhood urged a California federal judge to reject an injunction bid lodged by Native American tribes in California that would prevent the companies from offering sports betting contracts on tribal lands, arguing their federally authorized event contract businesses would suffer "substantial and irreparable harm."

  • September 26, 2025

    'American Exceptionalism' SPAC Leads 2 IPOs Totaling $550M

    Two special purpose acquisition companies made their public debuts Friday after pricing initial public offerings at a combined $550 million, with plans to merge with companies in the artificial intelligence, digital assets, fintech, defense and decentralized finance sectors, among others.

  • September 26, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • September 25, 2025

    Fed's Cook Warns Justices Of Fed Independence 'Death Knell'

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust her, warning that allowing her dismissal at this juncture would "sound the death knell" for an independent Fed.

  • September 25, 2025

    CashCall Urges Justices To Overturn $134M CFPB Award

    CashCall is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit order that left the loan company on the hook for $134 million in restitution to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the firm's insistence that conflicting precedent deprived it of its right to a jury trial.

  • September 25, 2025

    'Blessings Thru Crypto' Couple Must Pay $6.8M In CFTC Case

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday announced that two Tennessee residents have been ordered to pay over $6.8 million to end the commission's claims they defrauded more than 100 people with a multimillion-dollar commodity pool.

  • September 25, 2025

    Atkins Hints At Flexible Reporting Deadlines For Public Cos.

    With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission preparing to seek public feedback on President Donald Trump's proposal that public companies be allowed to report their financial results only twice a year, agency Chair Paul Atkins suggested Thursday that the SEC may not take a "one-size-fits-all" approach. 

  • September 25, 2025

    Imprisoned Pearl Token Founder Hit With Default In SEC Suit

    The incarcerated founder of an unregistered crypto offering known as Pearl tokens has been barred from issuing, offering or selling securities after failing to respond to parallel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims.

  • September 25, 2025

    Cleo AI Military Lending Suit Paused Amid 9th Circ. Appeal

    A Washington federal judge has halted proceedings in an Army staff sergeant's proposed class action alleging Cleo AI Inc. violates the Military Lending Act by employing predatory lending practices through its cash advances.

  • September 25, 2025

    Bitcoin Miner Investors Win Class Cert. In Suit Over Acquisition

    Investors in energy company-turned-bitcoin miner CleanSpark Inc. have gotten certification for a class of those allegedly harmed by the company's concealment of unfavorable details about a mining company it acquired and misrepresentations about the timeline for expanding the acquisition's power capacity.

  • September 25, 2025

    Oracle, Meta Mull $20B AI Deal, As Tech Rumors Abound

    Oracle Corp. is said to be in discussions with Meta on a multiyear cloud computing deal worth a potential $20 billion, Reuters reported on Sept. 19. The report came just days before a bombshell announcement from Nvidia about its $100 billion staged investment in OpenAI.

  • September 25, 2025

    Climate Activists Accuse US Of Human Rights Violations

    The U.S. government is violating young people's human rights by "perpetuating fossil fuel-driven climate destruction," a group of litigants told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a new petition.

  • September 25, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Won't Reconsider IPR Estoppel Decision

    The full Federal Circuit on Thursday rejected a rehearing petition from Ioengine LLC, which was appealing the invalidation of its flash drive patents in a case that set precedent on estoppel.

  • September 24, 2025

    AML Software Sues Athena Bitcoin Over Source Code Theft

    AML Software has filed a copyright infringement suit against ATM operator Athena Bitcoin for allegedly misappropriating its proprietary bitcoin ATM source code without authorization.

  • September 24, 2025

    UnitedHealth Fights Investor Suit Over DOJ's Merger Probe

    UnitedHealth and its executives have asked a Minnesota federal judge to toss a proposed securities class action accusing it of, among many things, not disclosing that the U.S. Department of Justice had reopened an antitrust investigation into the health insurer, saying the complaint consists of unsupported "scattershot allegations."

  • September 24, 2025

    Binance Founder Not Properly Served In Terror Case: Judge

    Victims of the October 2023 attack in Israel suing Binance for allegedly abetting the attack have been denied permission to serve the cryptocurrency exchange's founder by alternative means, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that their "relatively minimal effort" to serve him via conventional means wasn't enough.

Expert Analysis

  • The Road Ahead For Digital Assets Looks Promising

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    With new legislation expected to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology, and with regulators taking a markedly more permissive approach to digital assets, the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized finance is closer than ever, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling

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    Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Series

    Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.

  • Compliance Is A New Competitive Edge For Mortgage Lenders

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    So far, 2025 has introduced state and federal regulatory turbulence that is pressuring mortgage lenders to reevaluate the balance between competitive and compliant employee and customer recruiting practices, necessitating a compliance recalibration that prioritizes five key strategies, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • Even As States Step Up, They Can't Fully Fill CFPB's Shoes

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    The Trump administration's efforts to scale down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have prompted calls for state regulators to pick up the slack, but there are also important limitations on states' ability to fill the gap left by a mostly dormant CFPB, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Opinion

    The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable

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    As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.

  • 'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight

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    The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

  • The Pros, Cons Of A Single Commissioner Leading The CFTC

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    While a single-member U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission may require fewer resources and be more efficient, its internal decision-making process would be less transparent to those outside the agency, reflect less compromise between competing viewpoints and provide the public with less predictability, says former CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility

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    Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • Opinion

    The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law

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    Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

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