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Sarah Brennan is a US corporate & securities lawyer and acts as General Counsel for Delphi Ventures, a VC firm focused on Web3 investment. She has spent 14 years focused on corporate securities law and became active in the digital… origin »
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Crypto exchange Kraken commingled customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency and dealer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged in a new lawsuit Monday.
2023-11-21 01:41 | |
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The actions of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continue to raise eyebrows among crypto industry observers. According to John Deaton, a pro-XRP lawyer, the regulatory body’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation appears to uphold the interests of corporate capitalism rather than advocating for investor protection.
2023-7-30 16:21 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's corporate finance division reminded companies of disclosure requirements and provided guidance to what else they want to know.
2022-12-9 02:30 | |
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The firm planned to launch a digital asset securities platform in Singapore, as well as provide custody, capital markets products and corporate finance advisory services.
2022-9-16 21:15 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed new cybersecurity risk management rules for corporations that would require them to be more transparent with customer disclosures.
2022-4-15 02:40 | |
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Investors in Australia can offer, buy and trade Bitcoin and Ether in the traditional stock market, following the approval of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
2021-10-30 17:35 | |
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Blockchain payments firm Ripple and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are unlikely to reach a settlement any time soon, this is according to well-known attorney James K. Filan, who is observing the case with much interest.
2021-7-31 21:11 | |
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The deposition of former Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] Director of Corporate Finance, William Hinman has been postponed to 27 July 2021. The same was earlier scheduled to take place on MondThe post XRP Lawsuit: Why was Hinman's deposition pushed? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-7-20 01:00 | |
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Ripple’s defense of the ongoing lawsuit against it by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received a slight boost. Sarah Netburn, U. S. District Court Judge, has turned down SEC’s motion to cancel the deposition of William Hinman, former director of SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance.
2021-7-16 18:21 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner, Hester Peirce says while defi tokens carry some equity-like benefits, she believes that giving something away is distinct from selling something. As a result of this lack of clarity, Peirce says questions about the regulatory structure and how these tokens could affect corporate governance will continue to linger.
2020-10-9 02:15 | |
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Enigma Securities Ltd. (www.enigma-securities.io), a technology-driven financial institution dedicated to corporate liquidity solutions for cryptoassets, announced that it will be providing institutional-grade research to Bloomberg...
2020-9-29 14:43 | |
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The Fed is spending trillions to buy securities, including municipal bonds and corporate debt for the first time, in support of the financial system.
2020-5-19 13:00 | |
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A key lawmaker in the California Assembly has proposed exempting some digital assets from the state’s definition of corporate securities.
2020-5-8 09:04 | |
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It took the sudden emergence of a pandemic to demonstrate how pathetic the global financial system really is. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is now doing a live demonstration on how to print money out of thin air and buy government and corporate securities with it.
2020-4-1 19:00 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked investors to be wary of investing in Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) as they may not be compliant with securities laws. IEOs that are catering to United States persons must comply with federal securities and corporate law.
2020-1-16 14:00 | |
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Securitize adds support for security token issuance on Algorand blockchain - CryptoNinjas Securitize, a platform delivering global solutions for compliant digital securities, announced it has partnered with Algorand to support Securitize’s DS Protocol on the recently launched Algorand blockchain.
2019-9-11 18:26 | |
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Robert A. Cohen will join corporate law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell as partner after 15 years with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2019-8-20 19:00 | |
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Speaking at today's SEC FinTech Forum 2019, Director of Corporate Finance William Hinman said he believes ICO-funded projects could become exempt from securities laws if they become sufficiently decentralized.
2019-6-1 18:52 | |
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By CCN: The sudden swell of Bitcoin’s price to $8,000 USD this year shows global recession fears are mounting. This according to Michael Hartnett, the chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
2019-5-20 17:30 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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Jay Clayton, Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indirectly confirmed that ether (ETH) and other digital assets that functions like it are not securities, reports Coin Center on March 12, 2019.
2019-3-13 16:25 | |
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has formally confirmed existing staff analysis that Ethereum and other similar decentralized cryptocurrency assets are not securities, even if they were initially sold through an illegal securities offering.
2019-3-12 16:46 | |
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Leading blockchain company Skrumble Technologies announces the launch of the first regulated security token trading exchange at Hong Kong Blockchain Week. HONG KONG, CHINA – March 6, 2019 – Global Asset Exchange (GAX) is an institutional-grade trading exchange for buying and selling regulated securities (STOs) from around the world.
2019-3-6 16:28 | |
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The job of a top lawyer at Apple Inc. was to ensure that no employees violate the company’s insider-trading policies. It turned out that he was the one who was trading Apple Shares illegally, according to US regulators.
2019-2-16 11:50 | |
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Securitize, a compliance platform that handles the issuance and lifecycle management of digitized securities on the blockchain has joined the IBM blockchain technology accelerator program in a bid to revolutionize the $82 trillion corporate debt industry, reported Forbes on January 21, 2019.
2019-1-23 18:00 | |
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Digital securities platform Securitize has joined the IBM Blockchain Accelerator program and aims to make the corporate debt market more efficient
2019-1-22 02:12 | |
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The market for cryptocurrency tax services is growing rapidly, and it is providing forward-thinking tax professionals with an opportunity to capture oversized profits.
2018-11-15 16:58 | |
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The Director of Corporate Finance for the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the entity’s intention to make the classification of cryptocurrencies simpler. The director, William Hinman, spoke at the D.
2018-11-5 21:52 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.
2018-11-3 00:33 | |
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Earlier in June, William Hinman, the Director of the Division of Corporate Finance in the SEC, declared that Ethereum is not a security. The announcement came as a reprieve to crypto investors. Speaking on Ethereum, Hinman noted that it operates on a decentralized network, rather than a typical centralized platform that usually offers securities. For […]
2018-10-30 23:14 | |
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The United Arab Emirates is set to give the green light to ICOs for corporate financing and could have provisional regulations in place early next year. Perhaps more significantly, the country’s Securities Watchdog has revealed a co-operation with local authorities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi to create unified rules for cryptocurrency exchanges.
2018-10-9 16:08 | |
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The main Australian financial regulator has just published its 2018 to 2022 corporate plan. In the document, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) states that it will keep a watchful eye on cryptocurrency and will regulate it to minimise harm whilst preserving the innovative potential of the space.
2018-9-9 23:30 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has published a corporate plan that describes a vision for the country’s economic future as well as its intentions to regulate the cryptocurrency market.
2018-9-8 13:00 | |
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Investors may want to mark their calendars on Sept. 30 and Nov. 5 for potential spike in Bitcoin’s value because wider acceptance of BTC could be on the line. On Sept. 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will rule on whether to approve the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).
2018-9-6 23:00 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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The Thailand government is swiftly taking steps to adopt and implement cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology within its administration. Local reports on July 16, 2018 confirmed that a prominent securities body in Thailand is developing a digital token to facilitate settlement clearing of corporate bonds.
2018-7-18 06:00 | |
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Corporate bond settlement processes could soon become faster in Thailand after the nation’s Security and Exchanges Commission gave their consent to a new blockchain project developed by the Thailand Bond Market Association (TBMA).
2018-7-16 15:52 | |
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A self-regulatory organization in Thailand is planning a custom token aimed to speed up corporate bond settlement in the country. The Thailand Bond Market Association (TBMA) said it has received the green light from Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission to develop a private blockchain that will be only accessible for parties in the bond market,
2018-7-16 11:58 | |
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A self-regulatory organization in Thailand is planning to create a custom token aimed to speed up corporate bond settlement in the country.
2018-7-16 09:00 | |
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Banco Santander created a new entity,Santander Corporate & Investment Banking division, to implement blockchain for securities transactions.
2018-7-13 18:22 | |
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On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.
2018-7-3 23:16 | |
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William Hinman, who is the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance has clarified that Ethereum is not a security. This has been a long standing discussion, as to whether XRP is, or is not a security as well.
2018-6-19 13:00 | |
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This article does not contain tax advice, investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. William Hinman, the Securities and Exchange Commission’ director of the division of corporate finance said Thursday that ether—the currency that powers the Ethereum network—shouldn’t be regulated in […]
2018-6-17 23:47 | |
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Today, after nearly a decade of debate, the SEC announced that both bitcoin and ether are not securities. The SEC’s head of the Division of Corporate Finance, William Hinman, delivered the news at the San Francisco Yahoo All Markets Summit earlier today, garnering excitement from the crypto market and an immediate increase in the price […]
2018-6-16 22:27 | |
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It’s like an optical illusion, like that Laurel-Yanny debate, or the color of that dress. When you look at a cryptocurrency, do you see a security? Or a commodity? William Hinman, director of corporate finance for the U.
2018-7-12 21:14 | |
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In an announcement at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto in San Francisco on Thursday, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Corporate Finance William Hinman said that the commission would not be classifying ether or bitcoin as securities.
2018-6-15 06:56 | |
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In an informal statement made at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto, William Hinman, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s director of corporate finance, indicated that the regulatory agency has no plans to deem ether a security.
2018-6-15 00:40 | |
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The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Director of Corporate Finance, William Hinman, announced at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto today that bitcoin, ether, and other decentralized cryptocurrencies will not be classified as securities.
2018-6-14 22:00 | |
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BlackRock has set up a new Delaware trust that could open the door to a staking-based Ethereum exchange-traded fund. BlackRock has taken another step into Ethereum’s staking ecosystem by registering the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF as a new statutory…
U.S. regulators removed crypto from their 2026 examination priorities, marking a stark policy shift from the previous administration.
Grayscale filed to list on the NYSE, joining a surge of crypto firms going public in a landmark year for the industry's move into the mainstream arena.
Canary Capital has taken another step in its crypto exchange-traded fund expansion, filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a new product tied to a memecoin. Canary Capital Group LLC has filed an application with the U.S. SEC to…
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins says the regulator is considering a new framework for classifying digital assets.
Bitwise Asset Management signaled this week that a spot Dogecoin ETF could become effective in late November, with a possible launch date of November 26, 2025, if regulators do not intervene. Related Reading: Crypto Titans Unite: New Group To Forge Global Blockchain Transaction Standard Based on reports, the firm changed its filing to remove a […]
ETF would hold DOGE directly, with Coinbase and BNY Mellon as custodians. REX-Osprey DOGE ETF launched in September 2025, setting a precedent. Analysts see a 90% chance of multiple Dogecoin ETFs trading by year-end.