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Blockchain Regulation
19 published works
Free Writings + Perspectives
SEC Commissioner Peirce remarks on the Regulation of Tokenized Securities
By Matthew Bisanz, Alexandria Hasenkamp, Steffen Hemmerich
On May 8, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) held the 31st International Institute for Securities Market Growth and Development. Commissioner Peirce used this opportunity to discuss an approach…
Overheard on the Block(chain)
5 Trends to Watch: 2024 Blockchain
By Barbara A. Jones, Pallav Raghuvanshi, William Mack, Marina Olman-Pal, Carsten A. Kociok
Continued Robust Litigation and Enforcement Actions by Federal and State Regulators and Enforcement Authorities – We will likely see a similar level of anti-fraud prosecutions by the Department of Justice…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL Publishes Discussion Paper on Digital Assets and Privacy
By Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Cristina Pluchino
On January 20, 2023, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth published “Digital Assets and Privacy,” a discussion paper compiling insights from workshops with CIPL member companies…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Monthly Global FinTech regulatory updater
By Simon Lovegrove (UK), Hannah Meakin (UK)
Every month we provide the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Post-Trade Distributed Ledger group with a global regulatory FinTech updater, the latest version of which can be found here. Post Trade Distributed…
Overheard on the Block(chain)
EU Adopts Pilot Regime for Market Infrastructures Based on Blockchain and Other DLTs
By Mariafrancesca De Leo, Alessandra Boffa, Bertone Biscaretti di Ruffia, Davide Romeo, Antonio Enrico Izzi, Sara Bernasconi ˘
On June 2, 2022, Regulation (EU) 2022/858 on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (the Regulation) was published in the Official Journal of the European…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
California Governor Orders DFPI To Initiate Enforcement Actions
As was widely noted last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a lengthy executive order with respect to blockchain technology. According to the Governor's press release, the order aims to…
99 Park Row
The lack of crypto regulation is a big opportunity for lawyers
The new head of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, recently went before Congress to demonstrate his plan to regulate the burgeoning blockchain and crypto industries. Congress grilled…
Virtual Currency Report
Blockchain Week in Review: Week of May 22, 2020
Weekly Focus: OCC Announces a New Acting Comptroller of the Currency House Bill Would Require a Study on the Regulation and Use of Blockchain Technology in the United States IRS…
Virtual Currency Report
Blockchain Week in Review: Week of May 6–10, 2019
By Eric Wasik
U.S. Developments Regulatory Updates CFTC Publishes Enforcement Manual On May 8, 2019, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC”) Division of Enforcement (“DOE”) published its first public Enforcement Manual (the…
Technology and AI
New bipartisan bills aim to regulate and promote blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives directed at regulating virtual currency. In a post from the Norton Rose Fulbright Project Finance blog available, Deanne Barrow analyzes…