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Both Congress in the Clarity Act and the SEC in Regulation Crypto are moving to redefine the playing field for cryptocurrency. We will address each in a separate statement.
We believe the Clarity Act in the July version is deeply …
On April 6, 2026, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has exclusive jurisdiction over sports-related event contracts offered by Kalshi, becoming the first federal …
The proposed Digital Asset Market Clarity Act would establish a comprehensive, top-down regulatory framework for digital assets that reflects a growing bipartisan push in Congress for clear oversight of the digital asset industry. On Nov. 9, 2025, the Senate Committee …
After nearly two decades of regulatory uncertainty, digital assets stand at a critical juncture in American financial law. On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act,” known as the GENIUS Act, …
On June 17, 2025, the Senate passed the GENIUS Act, shorthand for the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, by a bipartisan vote of 68-30, with 18 Democratic Senators supporting the Bill. The GENIUS Act would amend …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced record monetary relief of over $17.1 billion for fiscal year 2024. With the resolution of digital asset cases that resulted in the agency’s largest recovery ever, this record amount included $2.6 billion in …
Two weeks ago, there was big news for “event contracts,” which provide for fixed payouts upon the occurrence of specified events and are sometimes referred to as “prediction” products. Kalshi – an exchange that has popularized event contracts on everything …
On Monday, January 8, 2021, Tesla announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin.[1] This purchase coincided with a dramatic increase in the price of the cryptoasset, which …
Governments have tended to treat climate change as primarily an issue of environmental policy. Recent climate change-related events, ranging from hurricanes to forest fires to floods, and their devastating effects on the global economy, however, are gradually alerting regulators and …
On March 6, 2019, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Director of Enforcement James McDonald announced an initiative to pursue foreign corrupt practices that constitute violations of the Commodities Exchange Act (“CEA”), noting that the Enforcement Division already has open investigations …
Data standardization – the process of developing and implementing rules for how data are described and recorded – offers significant benefits for financial firms and regulators. Nonetheless, the topic has received only scant attention from academics, and regulatory efforts to …
December 2017 marked a milestone in the short history of virtual currency. On Friday, December 1, 2017, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) self-certified new contracts for cash-settled bitcoin futures products. The self-certification process …
In recent years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a disruptive tool in entrepreneurial finance. ICOs involve the sale of a stake in a project with the aim of raising funds at an early stage of development. Although ICOs …
Bitcoin is a currency, technology, and, most recently, futures product. Several clearinghouses have allowed bitcoin futures trading. For example, CBOE launched trading in bitcoin futures on December 10, 2017, while CME Group did so a week later.[1] NASDAQ and …
Chairman Crapo, Ranking Member Brown and distinguished senators of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today.[1] I am pleased that the Committee is holding this hearing to bring greater focus to the important issues …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently proposed new regulations that will significantly affect international swap transactions.[1] At present, international swap market participants look to the CFTC’s 2013 Interpretive Guidance and Policy Statement Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations…
The CFTC recently approved a futures contract on a dividend index as a non-security based index futures contract over the SEC’s objection that the dividend index contract could be a security future; the CFTC’s actions may have implications for market …
The following post comes from a speech delivered by John Ramsay, Acting Director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the SEC. These remarks were delivered at the New York City Bar Association on May 15, 2013.
Thank you …