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Fintech Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on financial technology. Coverage includes legal and regulatory developments in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin and initial coin offerings, as well as electronic payment systems, peer-to-peer lending, algorithmic trading and many other aspects of this fast-evolving area of the law.
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Latest News in Fintech
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February 10, 2025
FTX Having Trouble Serving Binance With Ch. 11 Lawsuit
The estate of fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX told a Delaware bankruptcy judge late Friday that its attorneys haven't yet been able to serve Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao a lawsuit seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion that FTX is accused of illegally transferring prior to its collapse two years ago.
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February 10, 2025
Merrill Lynch Objects To New Discovery Bid In Stock Loan Suit
Merrill Lynch told a New York federal court it should deny investors' request for supplemental transaction data in their suit alleging major banks colluded to avoid modernizing the stock loan market, arguing that the discovery period has closed, and there are no legitimate reasons to grant the "burdensome" request.
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February 10, 2025
Feds Nab Plea In Bitcoin-Boosting Hack Of SEC X Account
An Alabama man on Monday pled guilty to being involved with the hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account last year, admitting to a single conspiracy charge and agreeing to forfeit $50,000 he made from the scheme that briefly bumped the price of bitcoin.
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February 10, 2025
FDIC's McKernan Exits Board As Republicans Max Out Seats
Republican Jonathan McKernan announced Monday that he'll vacate his seat on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s board, given the expiry of his term and the addition of a Trump appointee that brings the board to its maximum number of GOP-held seats.
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February 10, 2025
Grayscale Beats Bitcoin Rival's $2M Unfair Practices Suit
A Connecticut state court judge has handed digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments LLC a summary judgment win on a smaller rival's $2 million unfair trade practices suit over a bitcoin feud, finding that the relevant state law does not apply to the dispute.

Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Trade Commission
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Self-regulatory organizations
- State and international regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- OCC Fintech Charter
- Regulatory sandboxes
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Securities Act
- Securities Exchange Act
- Securities Investor Protection Act
- Commodities Exchange Act
- Federal and state guidance on fintech products
- Federal and state legislation
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering fraud investigations
- Asset and credit freezes
- False advertising of fintech products
- Cybersecurity and privacy matters related to fintech companies
- Spoofing
- Federal criminal matters
- State enforcement actions
- LITIGATION
- Intellectual property matters
- Investor class actions
- Challenges to federal or state regulations
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial coin offerings
- Mergers and acquisitions of fintech companies
- Private equity and venture capital fundraising for fintech companies
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of law firm fintech practices
- General counsel interviews
Readership
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- Corporate counsel, compliance officers and executives for fintech companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.