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March 24, 2025
Skadden, Latham Lead Crypto Platform EToro's IPO Filing
Crypto-friendly trading platform eToro Group Ltd. on Monday publicly filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering, represented by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.
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March 24, 2025
Visa Ducks Antitrust Suit Rife With 'Elementary Mistakes'
A California federal judge took a credit card transaction middleman to task Monday for "muddled" antitrust claims supported by "elementary mistakes" and tossing its proposed class action against Visa Inc.
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March 24, 2025
Feds Seek About 5 Years For Insurance Rep's $6M Bank Fraud
Georgia federal prosecutors recommended that a Florida insurance broker who pled guilty to defrauding a credit union out of $6 million through loans to commercial borrowers for insurance premiums be sentenced to between 51 and 63 months in prison.
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March 24, 2025
Wells Fargo Prescription Cost Suit Axed Over Standing
Wells Fargo has beaten back allegations that it violated federal benefits law by letting workers on its healthcare plan overpay for prescription drugs, with a Minnesota federal judge ruling Monday that the ex-workers behind the proposed class action lacked standing to sue.
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March 24, 2025
Final OK Sought For $3M In Bail Bond Antitrust Deals
A proposed class alleging they overpaid for bail bonds thanks to a price-fixing conspiracy is asking a California federal court to approve $3 million in settlements inked with two of the entities.
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March 24, 2025
Groups Press DC Judge To Unfreeze EPA Climate Funds
Three nonprofits awarded billions of dollars under climate change investment initiatives established under the Inflation Reduction Act have asked a federal judge to restore their access to grant funds that they claim the Trump administration has unlawfully blocked.
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March 24, 2025
SEC, FINRA Enforcement Heads Say Crypto Still A Focus
Heads of enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority indicated Monday the agencies are keeping their eyes on cryptocurrency, even as the former has backed off of various cases and investigations involving crypto.
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March 24, 2025
Winston & Strawn Adds Leveraged Finance Partner In NY
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Monday that it has hired a former Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP counsel with a broad range of financing experience in both domestic and cross-border transactions as a partner in New York.
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March 24, 2025
3rd Circ. Upholds No-Coverage Ruling For PNC's $106M Loss
PNC Bank NA can't get coverage for a more than $106 million judgment it paid over underlying claims that a bank PNC acquired had mismanaged certain trust accounts, the Third Circuit ruled, finding a provision that barred coverage for wrongful acts occurring before an acquisition was applicable.
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March 24, 2025
Proskauer Continues Finance Growth With Weil Atty
Proskauer Rose LLP announced the addition of a New York global finance partner from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Monday after a series of recent additions to the team abroad, calling her a "recognized leader in syndicated bank lending."
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March 24, 2025
Trump Asks High Court To Halt Fed. Workers' Reinstatement
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, arguing the band of nonprofit groups that obtained the order have no standing to challenge the firings.
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March 24, 2025
FinCEN Exempts US Businesses From Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's financial crimes unit issued interim final rules that exempt domestic businesses from contested reporting regulations, which the department had previously signaled it would narrow to include only foreign companies registered stateside.
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March 24, 2025
Justices Won't Review Missing Comma Coverage Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court won't review an Eleventh Circuit decision that a missing comma in a Chubb unit's professional services policy did not alter its clear and unambiguous meaning excluding coverage for a food service company's audit, according to an order list Monday.
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March 24, 2025
Justices Pass Up BNP Paribas Appeal In Sudan Refugee Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a petition from BNP Paribas to review a grant class certification in a suit alleging the French banking giant enabled human rights abuses in Sudan.
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March 24, 2025
Supreme Court Skips Fed. Circ. 1-Word Order Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a pair of challenges to the Federal Circuit's use of one-word orders in patent cases.
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March 24, 2025
Justices Won't Hear Ex-Rabobank Exec's OCC Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal to a former Rabobank compliance official who has been fighting to expunge a federal banking regulator's dismissed enforcement action against her, turning down her case after the Ninth Circuit rejected it.
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March 21, 2025
Only FDIC Can Sue Over Signature Bank Collapse, Judge Says
A New York federal judge on Friday tossed a shareholder lawsuit over alleged misstatements about Signature Bank's health ahead of its 2023 collapse, saying shareholders lacked standing to sue in light of the FDIC being a receiver of both the failed bank's assets and rights of the bank's stockholders.
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March 21, 2025
4th Circ. Won't Pause Order To Reinstate Federal Workers
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to pause a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of probationary workers who were fired from 18 federal agencies.
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March 21, 2025
Barclays Beats Investor Suits Over Unregistered Securities
A New York federal judge tossed Friday a pair of proposed securities class actions alleging Barclays misled investors about its internal controls and its unregistered securities sales, which eventually triggered so-called short squeezes, finding that the statements aren't actionable and the investors haven't sufficiently pled scienter, among other pleading failures.
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March 21, 2025
SEC Crypto Roundtable Puts 'Howey' To The Test
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought a dozen cryptocurrency legal experts together on Friday to wrestle with how to define security status for digital assets, and their in-depth discussion left the regulator with more questions or suggestions than agreed-upon definitions.
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March 21, 2025
SEC Guidance Moves Needle In Favor Of Private Fundraising
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent guidance on how accredited investors can self-certify when participating in broadly publicized private placements simplifies legal compliance for issuers, according to attorneys, though the jury is still out on whether market participants will embrace the new framework.
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March 21, 2025
Ex-Jefferies Employee Says Age Bias Led To Termination
Investment bank Jefferies LLC has been sued by a former assistant vice president who alleged he was fired under the pretext of working from home too much and that he was actually a victim of age discrimination.
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March 21, 2025
Mexican Citizen Stole $1M From Fruit Wholesaler, Feds Say
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against a Mexican citizen residing in California for allegedly defrauding a fruit wholesaler out of over a million dollars and falsifying his employment documents.
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March 21, 2025
Loan Servicer Faces 'Zombie Mortgage' Truth In Lending Suit
A mortgage loan servicer that allegedly tried to charge a North Carolina borrower $160,000 for a mortgage he discharged in bankruptcy during the Great Recession got hit with a proposed federal class action accusing it and a trust that purportedly attempted to foreclose his house of violating the Truth in Lending Act.
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March 21, 2025
Treasury Lifts Sanctions Against Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said Friday that it has removed U.S. government sanctions against cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, ending the Biden-era blacklisting after the Fifth Circuit said last year that key code underpinning the service wasn't sanctionable.
Expert Analysis
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Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB
Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Cos. Should Prepare For Mexican Payments Surveillance Tool
The recent designation of six Mexican cartels as "specially designated global terrorists" will allow the Treasury Department to scrutinize nearly any Mexico-related payment through its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — a rigorous evaluation for which even sophisticated sanctions compliance programs are not prepared, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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What's Potentially In Store For CFTC Under New Leadership
Under the leadership of acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Caroline Pham, and with the nomination of former commissioner Brian Quintenz to serve as permanent chair, the commission is set to widely embrace digital assets and event contracts, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Revived Executive Order Is A Deregulatory Boon To Banks
A recently reinstated 2019 executive order reveals the Trump administration’s willingness to provide unprecedented protections for regulated parties — including financial institutions — but to claim them, banks and other entities must adopt a forward-leaning posture to work with the regulators, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse
Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.
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A Look At The Student Loan Case Pending At Supreme Court
The Trump administration is likely to drop the U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas after its review of the 2022 borrower defense to repayment rule, but any outcome will be significant for institutions participating in programs covered by Title IV of the Higher Education Act, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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New Fla. Financial Abuse Law May See Limited Buy-In
Florida's newly effective financial protection law comes with compliance burdens and uncertainties that could discourage financial institutions from participating, even though the law aims to shield them from liability for delaying transactions when they suspect exploitation of elderly and vulnerable account holders, say attorneys at Shutts & Bowen.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.
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Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.
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30 Years Later: How PSLRA Has Improved Securities Litigation
In the 30 years since the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's passage, the statute has achieved its purpose of shifting securities class actions to investors most capable of monitoring the litigation, selecting competent counsel at competitive rates and maximizing recoveries for the investor classes they represent, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.
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How Banks Can Prepare For NYDFS Overdraft Overhaul
The New York State Department of Financial Services' recent proposal to amend overdraft rules for financial institutions underscores states' potential to create consumer protection mechanisms in the absence of meaningful federal action, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Terraform Case May Be Bellwether For Crypto Enforcement
The prosecution of crypto company Terraform Labs and its CEO, Do Kwon, offers a unique test of the line between lawful and unlawful conduct in digital transactions, and the Trump administration’s posture toward the case will provide clues about its cryptocurrency enforcement agenda in the years to come, say attorneys at Brooks Pierce.
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What's Next For Russia Sanctions After Task Force Disbanded
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent disbanding of Task Force KleptoCapture, which was initially aimed at seizing Russian oligarchs’ funds and assets, is unlikely to mean the end of Russia sanctions enforcement and other economic countermeasures, as the architecture for criminal enforcement remains in place, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Texas Banking Dept. Memo Demystifies Crypto Classifications
A recent memorandum from the Texas Department of Banking provides clarity with respect to the classification of both stablecoins and nonstablecoin virtual currencies under the state's Money Services Modernization Act, flagging for firms that stablecoins may be scrutinized more closely as money transmission, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.