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May 01, 2025
Crypto Influencer Launches SPAC As 2 Acquirers Tap Market
A special purpose acquisition company led by crypto influencer Anthony Pompliano and advised by Reed Smith LLP has filed for an initial public offering to raise $200 million, while two other blank-check companies eyeing the fintech and tech sectors have raised more than $400 million combined.
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May 01, 2025
AT&T Win Is FDIC's Loss On In-House Cases, 5th Circ. Told
A banker challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s use of in-house proceedings to level a fraud judgment against him told the Fifth Circuit that its recent decision overturning a $57 million Federal Communications Commission fine against AT&T confirms that the FDIC cannot rely on a "public rights" exemption to impose fines without a jury trial.
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May 01, 2025
4th Circ. Affirms Ex-Crypto COO's Fraud Conviction
The Fourth Circuit found no error in a former cryptocurrency executive's conviction for fraud and conspiracy related to his time working at a foreign currency and cryptocurrency trading investment firm that the panel said was actually just a Ponzi scheme that never made any trades.
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May 01, 2025
Sony Eyes $49B Semiconductor Unit Sale, Plus More Rumors
Sony could sell its semiconductor unit for $49 billion, while proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis is considering ending its practice of advising shareholder votes on politically charged topics, and AI startup Nscale plans to raise $2.7 billion in private capital to support the construction of data centers around the world.
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April 30, 2025
House GOP Bill To Cut 蜜桃视频 Budget, Audit Board Clears Panel
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday approved Republican budget legislation that would strip most funding from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wind down an independent audit regulator for public companies. 聽
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April 30, 2025
蜜桃视频 Scraps More Cases, Curbs Small Biz Loan Rule Focus
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday abandoned more lawsuits, including its Fifth Circuit appeal over a Biden-era policy that expanded the agency's anti-discrimination scrutiny of financial firms, and said it will not focus on enforcing a contested small business lending rule.
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April 30, 2025
Fed. Circ. Upholds PayPal, Apple Patent Wins Over Fintiv Inc.
PayPal Holdings Inc. successfully persuaded the Federal Circuit on Wednesday to uphold the invalidation of聽Fintiv Inc. mobile wallet patents it's accused of infringing, which then led to Apple Inc. beating a related appeal.聽
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April 30, 2025
Citadel Securities Gives SEC Regulatory Wish List
Citadel Securities LLC released a white paper Wednesday that lays out policy recommendations for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the exchanges it regulates, calling on the agency to address concerns tied to secretive trading rooms as well as 24-hour buying and selling.
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April 30, 2025
Website Operators Challenge $102M FTC Judgment
Two former executives of On Point Global LLC urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a civil contempt sanction of $102 million for violating a prior injunction, arguing that the lower court should have held a hearing to allow them to present evidence in their favor.
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April 30, 2025
Activant Unit Seeks $7.5M Fee After $37M Bolt Suit Win
An Activant Capital Group fund has petitioned Delaware's Court of Chancery to approve a聽$7.5 million company-paid corporate benefit fee, citing a successful battle for cancellation of more than $37 million in Bolt Financial Group shares held by a controller who defaulted on a more-than $30 million company-guaranteed loan.
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April 30, 2025
Coinbase Urges Justices To Take User's IRS Data Seizure Suit
Crypto exchange Coinbase on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to firm up privacy rights around digital information stored with third parties, backing a petition聽by a Coinbase user who's challenging the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of his account records.
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April 30, 2025
Feds Barred From Reviving 'Unlawful' Tornado Cash Sanctions
A Texas federal judge has permanently barred the U.S. Department of the Treasury from enforcing its now-dissolved sanctions on crypto mixer Tornado Cash after the advocates who challenged the designation argued the government's removal of the sanctions wasn't enough.
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April 30, 2025
Kirkland, Latham Lead Chinese Online Insurer's $30M US IPO
Shares of Chinese online insurance distributor Yuanbao Inc. rallied in debut trading Wednesday after it priced a $30 million initial public offering at the top of its range, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP, as more companies test a shaky U.S. IPO market.
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April 29, 2025
Ex-蜜桃视频 Senior Attys Sign On With Democracy Forward
Democracy Forward, a legal advocacy group that's emerged as a top court brawler with the Trump administration, said Tuesday that it has hired several more of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recently departed senior litigators, adding to its ranks of agency alums.
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April 29, 2025
SEC Abandons Investigation Into PayPal's Dollar Stablecoin
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its investigation into PayPal's dollar-pegged stablecoin "without enforcement action," PayPal said in a disclosure filed Tuesday, the latest cryptocurrency probe abandoned by the agency under President Donald Trump's administration.
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April 29, 2025
FTX Ch. 11 Trust Asks To Keep Customer Info Confidential
In a just-under-the-wire move, the FTX bankruptcy recovery trust has sought a seventh extension for a mid-2023 ruling by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware allowing confidential treatment of its 9 million customers' information, citing the data's continued value to the estate.
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April 29, 2025
Kim Kardashian, Celebs Challenge Crypto Buyers' Cert. Bid
The co-founder of the EthereumMax crypto token and celebrities who allegedly promoted the offering told a California federal judge that a group of spurned buyers should not be able to certify their class action since they have not provided a way to determine how many transactions would fall in each category.
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April 29, 2025
Perkins Coie Leads 2 SPAC Listings Raising $300M Combined
Two special-purpose acquisition companies,聽under similar leadership teams and represented by Perkins Coie LLP, began trading Tuesday after pricing initial public offerings that raised a combined $300 million.聽
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April 29, 2025
Watchdog Will Probe Trump Admin's Push To Shrink 蜜桃视频
The U.S. Government Accountability Office will look into whether the Trump administration's aggressive downsizing efforts have rendered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unfit for duty, agreeing to a review sought by Democratic lawmakers.
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April 29, 2025
OKCoin Says Crypto Holders Can't Tie Firm To $2M Theft
Digital asset exchange OKCoin and its affiliates urged a California federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing them of enabling cryptocurrency thieves, arguing the real cause of the plaintiffs' losses was the initial theft, not any actions by the exchange.
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April 29, 2025
Fla. Bitcoin Scammer Warned That 20-Year Sentence On Table
A Manhattan federal judge told a Florida bitcoin scammer on Tuesday that he may face 20 years for refusing to repay $20 million to an entrepreneur whose cryptocurrency he stole, citing the defendant's alleged preference for doing time over making restitution.
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April 29, 2025
Celsius Founder Should Get 20 Years For Fraud, Feds Say
Prosecutors have urged a federal judge in Manhattan to sentence the founder of defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius to 20 years in prison, arguing he ran a "yearslong campaign of lies and self-dealing" that caused billions of dollars in losses to thousands of customers.
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April 28, 2025
DC Circ. Restores Ban On 蜜桃视频 Mass Layoffs Amid Appeal
A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must refrain for now from mass employee firings, backtracking from a prior decision that the Trump administration had used to attempt a now-suspended layoff of nearly all the agency's staff.
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April 28, 2025
NJ Can't Take Action Over Kalshi's Sports Contracts, For Now
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday barred the state's gambling regulators from taking action over Kalshi's sports event contracts for the time being, after he聽found that the contracts appear to fall within the "exclusive jurisdiction" of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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April 28, 2025
Wells Fargo Exits 蜜桃视频's Mortgage, Auto Loan Consent Order
Wells Fargo & Co. announced Monday it has exited a consent order it inked with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a 2018 settlement that stemmed from allegations of improper practices in the bank's auto lending and mortgage divisions.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets
A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes 鈥 complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch鈥檚 authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Short-Term Predictions For The 蜜桃视频's Fate Under Trump
Though the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new leadership will likely moderate enforcement, possibly prompting state attorneys general to step up supervision, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
鈥淣o comment鈥 is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let 鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧媠tand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty
Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits 鈥 but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks
If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far
The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule
A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.
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Comparing 2 Pending Bills To Regulate Stablecoins
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage at Troutman analyzes the key similarities and differences between two payment stablecoin proposals currently pending in Congress 鈥 the STABLE and GENIUS acts 鈥 as both chambers are forming a working group to deliver a clear regulatory framework for digital assets and bipartisan agreement appears within reach.
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Citibank Wire Transfer Ruling Creates New Liability For Banks
A New York federal court's recent decision in New York v. Citibank, affirming the Electronic Fund Transfer Act's consumer protections cover wire transfers allegedly initiated by scammers who infiltrated Citibank customers' online accounts, creates new liability for sending financial institutions and upends decades-old regulatory guidance, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.