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May 15, 2026
Another proposed class of investors sued Alston & Bird LLP and a trio of financial institutions Friday over their alleged roles in a $328 million cryptocurrency scam orchestrated by Goliath Ventures Inc.
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May 15, 2026
The city of Detroit has urged a Michigan federal court to deny Robinhood Derivatives LLC's bid to block the state from enforcing its state gaming laws, arguing the company's sports-related event contracts threaten Detroit's tax revenue and local economy.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently put forth a plan that could allow publicly traded companies to move from a quarterly to a semiannual reporting schedule, but whether they choose to do so and how that could impact both the growth of the public markets and insider-trading plans for corporate leaders remains up for debate.
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May 15, 2026
A Massachusetts marketing firm says a medical supply company used it to broker a $50 million deal with another supplier, touted the arrangement to investors, then abruptly turned itself into a cryptocurrency business, stiffing the plaintiff out of anticipated commissions.
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May 15, 2026
A fintech executive from Turkey copped to a count of securities fraud Friday, telling a Manhattan federal judge that she lied to seed-round investors who backed her Kalder Inc. startup and agreeing to forfeit about $7 million.
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May 14, 2026
Apple Inc. has abandoned its request to transfer Fintiv Inc.'s trade secret theft and racketeering lawsuit from Georgia to Texas, citing U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's decision to leave the bench in the Western District of Texas.
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May 14, 2026
Stellantis, the company behind Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge cars, has received Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. clearance to open a U.S. industrial bank, a move that will put all of Detroit's "Big Three" automakers on track to own federally insured lenders.
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May 14, 2026
Alcoholic drink maker Brown-Forman rejected rival Sazerac's $15 billion takeover offer; fintech Digital Asset is seeking a $2 billion valuation with its latest funding round; and shoemaker Skechers has upped its offer to settle an investor lawsuit.
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May 14, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday affirmed a 20-year sentence for an Ecuadorian man from Florida who pushed the $14 million, international Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, concluding that "any error" from a broadcast of the sentencing did not impact the outcome.
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May 14, 2026
A group of former FTX customers has sued Fenwick & West LLP in federal court in Washington over its work representing FTX from 2018 to 2022, seeking to recover more than $525 million for losses stemming from the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse.
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May 14, 2026
The latest version of a bill to regulate crypto markets advanced out of the Senate banking committee on Thursday in a vote that saw two Democrats break with their colleagues to support the measure, though they warned their continued support of the so-called Clarity Act is contingent upon adding ethics language and other updates before the bill reaches the Senate floor.
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May 14, 2026
An Ohio man told a district court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied his tax deduction claim for a loss of over $800,000 from a cryptocurrency "pig butchering" scheme despite the extensive documentation of the fraud he said he provided to the agency.
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May 13, 2026
Lawmakers have offered over 100 amendments ahead of the Senate banking committee's Thursday markup of its latest proposal to regulate crypto markets, with Democrats proposing the lion's share of changes in an effort to add ethics language and beef up provisions addressing crypto's use in illicit finance.
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May 13, 2026
A convicted cryptocurrency scammer used a fake girlfriend to convince an old acquaintance to give him money and set up accounts for new crypto investments, which a federal judge said Wednesday was grounds for revoking his release while he awaited sentencing.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Reserve has broad discretion to cut financial institutions off from master accounts, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, rejecting a Puerto Rico bank's argument that it has a statutory right to what is commonly referred to as "bank accounts for banks."
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May 13, 2026
A Texas-based financial technology company told a state court Wednesday it has agreed to a $7.8 million resolution of the Massachusetts attorney general's claims that it misled consumers about its "lease-to-own" contracts for consumer merchandise, causing customers to pay "far more than the retail price for their merchandise."
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May 13, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration created the U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.
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May 13, 2026
The Chicago Blackhawks have told the Delaware bankruptcy court the hockey team needs more information about a potential buyer if troubled crypto financial technology firm Blockfills assigns a sponsorship deal with the hockey team in its Chapter 11 case.
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May 13, 2026
The U.S. Senate signed off Wednesday on the White House's choice of Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, capping off a monthslong process that became entangled in the Trump administration's push to criminally investigate outgoing Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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May 13, 2026
The recovery trust of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX has called a crypto hedge fund's $200 million claim "frivolous," countering that it is the hedge fund that owes the estate $84 million for a line of credit FTX had extended.
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May 12, 2026
Senate banking committee Republicans released the latest version of a bill to regulate crypto markets that will serve as the base text for a Thursday markup, which could be complicated by Democrats' calls for ethics provisions and banks' opposition to language around stablecoin rewards.
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May 12, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge has ruled that the Ho-Chunk Nation can sue prediction market platform Kalshi under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, but he stripped racketeering and false advertising allegations from the tribe's gambling lawsuit targeting the company's sports event contracts.
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May 12, 2026
The D.C. Circuit didn't seem sure which way to come down Tuesday morning on the various arguments put forth by the convicted operator of the Bitcoin Fog crypto mixer in an attempt to overturn his conviction.
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May 12, 2026
A Delaware company has lodged lawsuits against Google, Apple and Lenovo alleging that they have infringed its patents covering contactless payment technologies, targeting the use of tap-to-pay systems in their smartphones and wearable devices.
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May 12, 2026
Bitcoin Depot systematically facilitated fraud involving cryptocurrency through its bitcoin ATM network, which targeted consumers who have lost thousands of dollars through the machines, according to a proposed class action in Idaho federal court brought by a couple who alleged they fell victim to such a scam.