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APRIL 4, 2022

Today, you’ve invited me to talk about the roughly $2 trillion crypto markets. In February, you all might have noticed Super Bowl ads for several crypto platforms. In crypto, there is lots of innovation, but plenty of hype. There’s no reason to treat the crypto market differently just because different technology is used.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mainstream news sources have already covered the story extensively, so I want to take a different angle and comment on how “the smart money” fell for this scam and what it could mean for careers in finance. billion of illiquid crypto tokens, $3.2 And if you have been living under a rock, here’s a good 99-second summary.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After the collapse of FTX and a summer of crypto failures (Terra Luna, Celsius, Three Arrows), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will want to act quickly and treat more digital assets as “securities.” For-profit philanthropy has reappeared in crypto, however. But which ones? Doing so changes the inquiry in two key ways.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 17, 2023

First, existing laws and regulations apply to the crypto securities markets. Second, the SEC addresses the crypto securities markets through rulemaking as well. Existing laws and regulations already apply to the crypto securities markets. As articulated in the famous Supreme Court decision, SEC v.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Securities Act of 1933 was about companies raising money from the public. They understood that, when advisers manage someone else’s money, there may be additional opportunities for conflicts of interest between those advisers and clients. That includes securities and intermediaries in the crypto market. Crypto Tokens.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 16, 2023

16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global anti-money laundering software market size was valued at USD 1.65 Fortune Business Insights™ shares this information in its report titled "Anti-Money Laundering Software Market Forecast, 2023-2029.". Anti-Money Laundering Software Market Size in 2021. Pune, India, Jan. 2022 to 2029.

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 3, 2024

January last year in brackets below the chart: Equities: 54% [Up 22%] Real Estate (Equity Funds + Owned Properties): 12% [Down 3%] Gold: 8% [Down 2%] Cash & Savings: 5% [Down 6%] Angel Investments: 5% [No change – recording these at historical cost] Crypto: 5% [Up 5%] U.S. But my real estate investment funds were down ~10% , which hurt.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the agencies) are issuing the following statement on crypto-asset1 risks to banking organizations. financial system. financial system.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On November 14, 2022, FTX, the third largest crypto exchange in the world, filed for bankruptcy. One of those conversations, we believe, will address whether chapter 11 bankruptcy is the appropriate place to deal with crypto failures like those of FTX. It has sparked contagion fears across the crypto industry.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In the wake of the industry’s recent significant bankruptcy filings, crypto watchers are focusing for the first time on which crypto-entities are eligible for chapter 11 relief [1] under the U.S. 5] Thus, the general rule is that all claims are valued in U.S. dollars as of the date of the bankruptcy filing.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We use cryptocurrency price data extracted from CoinGecko, one of the largest crypto price data aggregators. Finally, although crypto-investors view enforcement as costly, the more positive reaction to antifraud actions, which improve market integrity, offsets this view. A need for updated law and regulation may explain our results.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 1, 2023

As the acceptance of cryptocurrency continues to grow, more and more clients are seeking guidance in navigating the intricate complexities of virtual money. A company looking to raise money to create a new coin, app, or service launches an ICO to raise funds. Also called crypto assets. dollar, the euro, the pound, or the yen.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 30, 2022

Despite the far-reaching ambition, DeFi markets are experiencing increasing intermediation recently, as a new type of intermediary, so-called Crypto Funds (henceforth, CFs), reintroduces centralized market structures. billion in mid-2018 to $57.5 billion in 2021. This post comes to us from Paul P.

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Equidam

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto, Robinhood, and Klarna were all the rage, and almost any investment made 2 years prior had achieved significant returns. At the intersection of physical and monetary, prices depend on two supply and demand curves: the supply and demand for the product or service, and the supply and demand for money.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In a new article , we examine these questions in the context of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuits involving crypto assets. Rather than issuing a legislative rule sweeping the entire crypto industry under its regulatory umbrella, the SEC is proceeding case-by-case under existing precedent. prior judicial interpretation.”

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 2, 2023

They advise hedge funds, mutual funds, money market funds, and other institutional investors. I know there’s been recent attention to this proposal regarding its intersection with crypto. Make no mistake: Our current custody rule, adopted in 2009, covers a significant amount of crypto assets. [6] 4, 2023), available at [link].

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 23, 2023

The SEC’s Role At this remarkable agency, we serve investors building for a better future and issuers raising money to fund innovation, while overseeing the $100 trillion capital markets in the middle where they meet. 24] Crypto Congress gave the Commission a mandate to protect investors, regardless of the labels or technology used. [25]

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Benzinga

MAY 5, 2022

NASDAQ: NXTP ) has completed the previously announced acquisitions of artificial intelligence (AI) game development and crypto asset management technologies that further enhance its digital business ecosystem for digital advertisers, consumers, and video gamers. FBP) along with its Make It Games ™ (‘MIG') brand.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The actions include public company disclosure and crypto matters, among others. The SEC alleged that the Company failed to establish an adequate anti-money laundering surveillance program for its transactions until September 2020. These figures exclude follow-on actions, bars and suspensions.) Bittrex, Inc. million.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 19, 2023

2 The SEC indicated that this addition would also include other types of investments such as crypto assets, financial contracts and physical assets (e.g., In the Proposal, the SEC also highlighted issues under the current Custody Rule that may have immediate implications for advisers advising clients with respect to crypto assets.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 26, 2022

The crypto-tokens market has recently emerged as an alternative source of financing for entrepreneurial ventures, with approximately $27 billion raised globally through March 2022. [1] 1] These ventures issue blockchain-based digital “crypto-tokens” to raise external capital through an initial coin offering (“ICO”).

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The stand-alone enforcement actions spanned the securities industry, from billion-dollar frauds to emerging investor threats involving crypto asset securities and cybersecurity, and charged violations by diverse market participants, from public companies and investment firms to gatekeepers and social media influencers.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

3] SAB 121 directs public companies that safeguard crypto assets for clients to put a liability and corresponding asset on their balance sheet and adjust them as the value of the asset changes. It is driving broker-dealers to allocate significant capital to their crypto custody businesses or to avoid the business altogether.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At this remarkable agency, we serve investors building for a better future and issuers raising money to fund innovation, while overseeing the $100 trillion capital markets where they meet. As proposed, this rule would cover all sectors of the securities markets, including equity, fixed-income, and crypto asset securities. [10]

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 22, 2022

For all the press lamenting the “crypto winter” and urging long-term legislative overhaul, there has not been sufficient attention to how existing regulatory tools can be employed to address some of the key risks and vulnerabilities in the current crypto landscape. The role of transfer agents should be reconsidered.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The crackdown on Tornado Cash , a crypto mixing service, continues a recent trend of regulators using blacklisting as a key enforcement tool. These advisories were only withdrawn after the jurisdictions began to comply with the FATF’s anti-money laundering recommendations and were removed from its blacklist.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 13, 2022

Exams will focus on, among other things, (i) private funds, (ii) broker-dealers, (iii) Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or impact investing, (iv) financial technology (FinTech) and crypto-assets, and (v) information security (InfoSec) and operational resiliency.

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 9, 2022

and you summon Founders and CEOs who desperately need your money to grow their companies. Highly Skewed Performance – Remember that 65% of VC deals lose money , and only 4% of deals return more than 10x. 10 AM – 11 AM: You do a few media appearances on Bloomberg and CNBC to discuss recent trends in the crypto and NFT markets.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 13, 2023

In short, it required 1) an investment of money 2) in a common enterprise 3) with the expectations of a profit 4) to be derived from the efforts of others. Such buyers could reasonably understand that Ripple would use the money to improve the XRP Ledger and thus increase the value of the token.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 17, 2023

Crypto enthusiasts immediately began celebrating the opinion as holding that XRP, the Ripple token, was not a security. Given the economic reality that XRP depends on the prospects of Ripple, crypto enthusiasts should not consider this a win either. On July 13, Judge Analisa Torres handed down a long-awaited decision in SEC v.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 28, 2022

Despite SEC Commissioner Gensler’s strong statements regarding the securities status of fungible crypto tokens, the absence of any discussion of the other 16 tokens leaves the Web3 community largely in the dark as to the SEC’s approach and the rationale for treating some tokens as securities but not others.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 18, 2022

On June 1, Senators Lummis and Gillibrand introduced bipartisan legislation (Loomis-Gillibrand Bill) in the Senate that expands the CFTC’s oversight of crypto-assets. whether NFTs are being utilized to raise money like traditional securities and ought to be subject to the same rules as stock offerings). In the landmark decision SEC v.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

As I do this, there is no way that I can evade discussing Bitcoin and other crypto assets, which continued to draw disproportionate (relative to their actual standing in markets) attention during the year, and talking about what 2020 taught us about them. They may be right in their choice, but there are two issues that they need to confront.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 23, 2022

Although the Agenda includes rules that might regulate crypto protocols or platforms through an unmarked backdoor, [21] it does not appear to include any rules primarily intended to grapple with the main regulatory questions that have arisen around these assets. [22]. See SEC, Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 11, 2022), [link]. [23]

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

FTX [1] is a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2019 that, at its peak in 2021, had over 1 million users, making it the world’s third largest crypto exchange by volume. Regulators, lawyers, and central banks still struggle sometimes to put some crypto assets in a category but defining them is possible. Key message.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 11, 2022

But unlike other controversial topics – crypto, the CFA, or social media censorship – this one rarely generates long-running online arguments. If the answer is “to make more money” or “to do something more exciting,” there are more feasible ways to achieve these goals. There are few topics as heated as age and investment banking.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 18, 2022

We are the destination of choice for companies seeking to raise money in both public and private markets. Moreover, the highly volatile and speculative crypto marketplace has mushroomed, attracting tens of millions of American investors and traders. [3] 3] In 2016, there were an estimated 644 crypto tokens on the worldwide market.

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