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April 17, 2025
Bill-Pay Co. Customers Can Continue With Most Of Class Action
Customers of online bill-pay service Doxo Inc. can proceed with most of their claims in a Consumer Protection Act proposed class action alleging the company deceived them by not disclosing fees upfront, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday.
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April 17, 2025
Polymarket Operator To Pay Fine Over Binary Options Claims
The Ontario Securities Commission said Thursday that the operators of prediction market platform Polymarket have agreed to a 200,000 Canadian dollar ($144,456) penalty over allegations it served Ontario customers despite the jurisdiction's ban on binary options.
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April 17, 2025
Feds Say Estonians Won't Be Deported Before Fraud Sentence
Prosecutors told a Washington federal judge Thursday that they had secured approval for "deferred action" from the Department of Homeland Security on potential immigration proceedings against two Estonian men awaiting sentencing for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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April 17, 2025
K&L Gates Bungled Crypto Co.'s Bankruptcy Claim, Suit Says
Gryphon Digital Mining has sued its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, claiming it dropped the ball on a bankruptcy filing that cost the company millions of dollars and complicated another legal case, all while allegedly overbilling the crypto mining firm by $1 million for related matters.
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April 17, 2025
Crypto Casino Owner Gambled With Investor Funds, Feds Say
The founder of a purported cryptocurrency casino was criminally charged with stealing millions of dollars from investors and gambling the funds away at a different online gambling platform and in the stock market.
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April 17, 2025
Ƶ Mass Layoffs Resume, Hitting All Corners Of Agency
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's acting Director Russell Vought moved Thursday to resume mass firings at the agency, prompting a scramble from its employee union to head off a torrent of pink slips terminating the vast majority of the agency's workforce.
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April 17, 2025
Hidden Road Nabs Broker-Dealer Approval After Ripple Deal
Prime brokerage platform Hidden Road announced Thursday that it's received a broker-dealer license from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, hot on the heels of a deal that will see Ripple Labs acquire the firm for $1.25 billion.
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April 17, 2025
Ƶ Will Cut Examinations By Half In Broad Retreat: Memo
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to cut back sharply on its policing of nonbank financial firms, slash examinations and pull back on its use of fines as part of a dramatic shift in supervisory and enforcement priorities outlined in a new internal memo.
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April 17, 2025
Global Payments To Acquire Worldpay In $24.3B Deal
Global Payments Inc. unveiled plans Thursday to acquire payments giant Worldpay from GTCR and FIS for $24.25 billion, while divesting its issuer solutions business to FIS for $13.5 billion, in transactions that could reshape the global payments landscape.
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April 16, 2025
OCC To Merge Bank Supervision Units In Reorganization
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Wednesday it is consolidating its bank supervision units as part of a wider series of organizational changes that will include the departure of two longtime senior agency officials.
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April 16, 2025
Red State AGs' SEC Suit Paused Amid Crypto Policy Shift
A Kentucky federal judge on Wednesday paused a suit from a coalition of Republican attorneys general challenging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto enforcement strategy as the regulator retools its approach to digital asset policy.
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April 16, 2025
AI Infrastructure Biz Auradine Wraps $153M Funding Round
Blockchain and artificial intelligence infrastructure company Auradine Inc. on Wednesday announced that it closed its oversubscribed Series C funding round with $153 million of investor commitments.
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April 16, 2025
Ƶ Defends Bid To Undo Redlining Deal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reiterated Tuesday its bid in Illinois federal court to refund a Chicago-area mortgage lender's redlining settlement, arguing that consumer advocates fighting to keep the deal in place "attack a strawman" and posit "a parade of horribles that have nothing to do with this case."
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April 16, 2025
Schumer Looks To Block Trump NY US Attorney Nominations
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced on Wednesday he is exercising his power to block two of President Donald Trump's nominations for U.S. attorneys, which could set up an early test for preserving the long-standing Senate blue slip tradition.
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April 16, 2025
Trump Ousts Democrats From NCUA Board In Latest Purge
The National Credit Union Administration's two Democratic board members said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has fired them from the agency, a purge they are slamming as politically motivated and a threat to regulatory independence.
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April 15, 2025
Atty Sues After His Dog-Themed Meme Coin Gets Hacked
A former BigLaw attorney who created a meme coin in honor of his pet dachshund has sued the crypto wallet provider he used to hold his tokens over "catastrophic security failures and deliberate regulatory evasion" that allegedly allowed a hacker to steal half a million dollars' worth of his meme coin and tank the value of the project in the process.
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April 15, 2025
OCC Pledges Transparency Amid 'Ongoing' Breach Review
Following a "major" breach of its email system, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it is still figuring out what sensitive information was accessed and will let banks know individually if material on them or their customers was included.
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April 15, 2025
Chase Says Fla. Biz Playing Games With NY 'Debanking' Suit
JPMorgan Chase Bank NA wants a case accusing it of "debanking" a Florida company sent to the Sunshine State, arguing that it has already won at least one nearly identical suit there and that the company's attempt to bring the current action in New York is a transparent attempt at forum shopping.
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April 15, 2025
Judge Vacates Ƶ's Credit Card Late Fee Rule
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $8 credit card late fee rule after the agency reached a deal with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade groups to settle their litigation over the agency's Biden-era rule.
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April 15, 2025
Insurer Denies Coverage For Short Seller Cohodes' Libel Case
Short seller Marc Cohodes, who was accused by a financial advisory firm of causing $5 million in reputational damage via libelous posts on X, cannot have coverage for the litigation, an insurer told a Montana federal court, noting that his homeowners policy excluded intentional wrongdoing.
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April 15, 2025
Davis Polk Guides StoneX On $900M RJ O'Brien Buy
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is guiding New York-based StoneX Group on its agreement to acquire Mayer Brown LLP-advised futures brokerage R.J. O'Brien, or RJO, at an equity value of approximately $900 million.
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April 15, 2025
MIT Bros. Cite DOJ Memo In Bid To Get $25M Crypto Case Axed
Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrency cited a U.S. Department of Justice memo instructing prosecutors to pull back from novel cases involving digital assets as they urged a New York federal judge to dismiss the charges.
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April 14, 2025
SEC Won't Revisit WhatsApp Settlements With 16 Firms
A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission refused Monday to redo settlements it inked with 16 financial firms over their failure to keep records of so-called off-channel communications, finding the "settlor's remorse" the firms are suffering because others received better terms is not reason enough to modify their deals.
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April 14, 2025
Coinbase Wants 3rd Circ. To Look At Share Traceability Ruling
Coinbase has asked a New Jersey federal judge to let the Third Circuit immediately review the court's decision to allow an investor class action to proceed, saying it runs contrary to Fifth and Ninth circuit rulings concerning the traceability of share purchases, particularly in companies like Coinbase that went public via a so-called direct listing.
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April 14, 2025
Chinese Fintech Says Investors' IPO Suit Still Misses The Mark
Chinese fintech 9F Inc. pushed back on the third version of a complaint filed by its investors, saying the shareholders still fail to address their lack of standing for its claims that 9F violated securities laws by not disclosing an "illegal arrangement" it allegedly had with an insurance firm.
Expert Analysis
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Student Loan Entities In Hot Seat After Ƶ Goes To College
While the direction of student loan servicer oversight in the new presidential administration is unclear, recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau actions still signal heightened regulatory scrutiny at both the federal and state levels of college institutional loan programs, along with their service providers, says attorney Jonathan Joshua.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Patent Ruling Sheds Light On Printed Matter Doctrine
Patent attorneys should pay attention to the claim language highlighted in Ioengine v. Ingenico, where the Federal Circuit held that program code was not printed matter, but essentially instructions or content, and therefore not subject to the printed matter doctrine for patent challenges, says Irah Donner at Manatt.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire
Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act — and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.
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Series
Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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What Broker-Dealers Must Know Before Selling Bitcoin ETPs
Interest in bitcoin exchange-traded products is already high, and only expected to grow in light of the incoming Trump administration's pro-crypto stance, but broker-dealers must still consider numerous regulatory requirements before recommending a bitcoin ETP to a client, say Frank Weigand and Justine Woods at Cahill Gordon.
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Series
Texas Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4
The fourth quarter of 2024 brought noteworthy developments to the Texas financial services sector, particularly a new state artificial intelligence bill and a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that will affect an outsize number of Texas community banks, says Tyler George at Naman Howell.
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Cyber Disclosure Is A Mainstay In 2025 SEC Exam Priorities
Despite a new administration and a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair incoming, the SEC's 2025 examination priorities signal that cybersecurity disclosures and risk management practices will remain important due to the growing threat of cyberattacks, says Anjali Das at Wilson Elser.
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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Best Practices To Find Del. Earnout Provisions That Hold Up
Recent Delaware earnout litigation illustrates the need for careful drafting and proactive planning to avoid later divergent interpretations of the signed contract, and a series of drafting tips can help, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads
Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.
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Preparing For Mexican Drug Cartels' Terrorist Designation
In the event President-elect Donald Trump designates Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, businesses will need to consider how their particular industry is affected and evaluate previously legitimate practices given the cartels' involvement so many sectors of the economy, say attorneys at King & Spalding.