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Skadden Discusses Democratic DeFi Proposal and Cryptoasset Market-Structure Regulation

By Aaron K. Washington, Daniel Michael, Chad E. Silverman and Matthew Harris October 21, 2025 by renholding

What’s new: Senate Democrats have introduced a DeFi proposal that creates a new regulatory framework for decentralized finance platforms, focusing on preventing illicit finance and regulatory arbitrage by applying existing securities market requirements to DeFi.
Why it matters: The DeFi

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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Fed Independence”

By Todd H. Baker July 15, 2025 by renholding

Most industry and academic discussion about the Fed focuses, as is appropriate, on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ role in managing monetary policy and, in particular, its tools for managing interest rates and inflation in the shadow of tariffs …

SEC Chair Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

By Gary Gensler September 13, 2023 by renholding

Good morning, Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. As is customary, I’d like to note that my views are my own as Chair of the Securities and Exchange

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Davis Polk Discusses Unsung Provisions of Bill to Hold Bank Executives Accountable

By Luigi L. De Ghenghi, David L. Portilla, Daniel P. Stipano, Margaret E. Tahyar and Caitlin Hutchinson Maddox July 10, 2023 by renholding

The Recovering Executive Compensation Obtained from Unaccountable Practices (RECOUP) Act, designed to hold senior executives at banking organizations accountable, has broad and unusual bipartisan support, passing out of the Senate Banking Committee by a 21-2 bipartisan vote. As the bill …

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Skadden Discusses Democratic DeFi Proposal and Cryptoasset Market-Structure Regulation

What We Talk About When We Talk About “Fed Independence”

SEC Chair Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Davis Polk Discusses Unsung Provisions of Bill to Hold Bank Executives Accountable