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Cryptocurrency terms: A beginner’s guide to advise your clients

ThomsonReuters

Interested investors can buy into the offering and receive a new cryptocurrency token issued by the company. Crypto token : Special kinds of virtual currency tokens that reside on their own blockchains and represent an asset or utility. Also called crypto assets. Also called app coins or user tokens.

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Did the FTX Bankruptcy Kill the Crypto Star?

Brian DeChesare

billion in these few short years , and one of its founders, Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”), became highly influential in political circles as “the adult face of crypto.”. But as crypto prices began crashing in 2022, FTX claimed it was still doing well , even as other platforms failed (see: Celsius and Voyager and the fall of the Terra network ).

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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. Crypto and the Purpose of Finance.

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

Reynolds Holding

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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Latham & Watkins Discusses SEC’s Strategic Plan

Reynolds Holding

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. Furthermore, Chairman Gensler reiterated what he has said before, that “the vast majority” of digital tokens are investment contracts (i.e.,

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3 Signs your firm should be offering Advisory services

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If your clientele has growing interest in things like crypto currency, nonfungible tokens, or blockchain they will need your help navigating these worlds. As you offer them advice in your advisory services you will be engaging in conversations with them more often, and these topics are likely to be more positive too!

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SEC Chair Gensler Testifies Before U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee

Reynolds Holding

In recent years, we’ve seen as much — whether the market events of March 2020, the meme stock-related volatility in early 2021, the speculative crypto markets, the boom of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), or the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, which we recently charged with fraud and market manipulation.