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How Investors React to SEC and CFTC Enforcement in Digital Asset Markets

Reynolds Holding

The realities of fragmentation are evident in the increasing competition between the major federal regulators claiming jurisdiction over digital asset markets: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). agencies in global markets. based enforcement risks.

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Let’s Stop Treating Crypto as If It Were Finance

Reynolds Holding

Treasury, SEC, CFTC, and CFPB appear set on regulating the crypto trading system (traded coins and associated marketplaces, exchanges, brokerages, lending, staking, derivatives, intermediaries, and enablers) as part of the traditional financial services system. So why isn’t the crypto trading market finance?

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Skadden Discusses Senate Bill to Create Regulatory Structure for Crypto and Other Digital Assets

Reynolds Holding

Undoubtedly, the greatest area of uncertainty has involved the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and its application of the so-called Howey test when determining whether a cryptocurrency or other digital asset is being offered as an investment contract for purposes of applying U.S. securities law. Registration of Digital Asset Exchanges.

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Latham & Watkins Discusses SEC’s Strategic Plan

Reynolds Holding

On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a draft Strategic Plan (the Plan) for fiscal years 2022–2026. The SEC will continue to focus on investor education and outreach that addresses diverse and underserved communities as well as on emerging and popular investment topics. Enforcement and Disclosures.

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SEC Chair Gensler Talks Security-Based Swaps Market to ISDA

Reynolds Holding

Swaps emerged in the 1980s to provide producers and merchants with a way to lock in the price of commodities, interest rates, and currency rates. When I first appeared before this group, as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Washington was still developing the regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the SBF Prosecution: Where the Legal Issues Lie

Reynolds Holding

In most cases involving public corporations, venue is easy for prosecutors to establish in New York because public corporations trade on either the NYSE or Nasdaq, both of which are located in theory in New York. [20] 20] In reality, both the NYSE and Nasdaq trade through computers located in the swamps of New Jersey. 1582 (2020). [12]

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Katten Discusses Shareholder Litigation Risk in an Unstable Geopolitical Environment

Reynolds Holding

In this article, we begin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations that mandate risk disclosures, and the federal statutes that create civil liability for misleading statements. Turning next to the invasion of Ukraine, we analyze the conflict, and the resulting disruption to supply chains and commodities.