Fintech

  • January 10, 2025

    FDIC's Hill Calls For 'New Direction' In Preview Of Agenda

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Travis Hill signaled Friday that he intends to steer the agency in a "new direction" when he takes over as its acting chief later this month, mapping out plans for a more tech-friendly, lighter-touch approach.

  • January 10, 2025

    Infosys Files Antitrust Counterclaims In Trade Secrets Suit

    Healthcare payments software company Infosys has hit back with antitrust counterclaims against Cognizant TriZetto Software Group's Texas federal court suit accusing Infosys of abusing its system access to develop competing services.

  • January 10, 2025

    4 Trends That Will Shape Venture Capital Funding In 2025

    Venture capital funding appears primed to improve in 2025 as market participants shake off the effects of a post-pandemic crash, with surging demand for artificial intelligence, expectations of friendlier government policies, and more exits through public listings and acquisitions.

  • January 10, 2025

    CFPB Floats Protections For Crypto, Video Game Payments

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed to make clear that cryptocurrency and video game transactions are covered under existing rules codifying consumers' rights in situations of fraudulent transfers, hacks and stolen funds.

  • January 10, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Skeptical Ioengine Can Overcome On-Sale Bar

    A Federal Circuit panel seemed doubtful Friday that none of the hundreds of people who downloaded a firmware upgrade affiliated with an early flash drive used it, which Ioengine LLC would need to prove to beat an on-sale bar invalidation of its patents.

  • January 10, 2025

    SafeMoon CEO Wants 'Misleading' Reddit Post Explained

    The CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency asset company SafeMoon LLC asked a Brooklyn federal judge Friday to order the government to explain whether it had a role in a social media user's "misleading" post that promised to connect SafeMoon investors with the U.S. government.

  • January 10, 2025

    Feds Say Russians Behind North Korea-Linked Crypto Mixers

    Georgia federal prosecutors on Friday announced money laundering and unlicensed money transmission charges for three Russian nationals who allegedly operated crypto mixing services previously sanctioned over their apparent use by North Korean hackers and other cybercriminals.

  • January 10, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen legal services group RBG Holdings face a winding-up petition from founder Ian Rosenblatt amid soured talks about the group's leadership, J.P. Morgan file a fresh claim against WeRealize, retailer Asda face an intellectual property claim over a specific type of mandarin and financier Nathaniel Rothschild sue German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst and his investment vehicle Tennor International. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • January 10, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Constellation acquires Calpine, Cintas seeks a deal with UniFirst Corp., Stryker Corp. acquires Inari Medical Inc., and Paychex Inc. buys Paycor.

  • January 10, 2025

    Crypto Buyers Say They Were Duped Out Of Millions

    Investors in two crypto projects — Phoenix Community Capital and its offshoot, Xeta Capital — alleged in Tennessee federal court that the projects' leaders duped them out of tens of millions of dollars with false promises of "returns, transparency, and the legitimacy of the enterprises."

  • January 09, 2025

    CFPB Bars Ex-Agency Attys From Revived Innovation Policies

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has said it will not consider applications for its rebooted no-action letter and compliance sandbox policies when those applications are submitted by financial service companies represented by former bureau attorneys as outside counsel.

  • January 09, 2025

    Susman Godfrey Vies To Help Lead Crypto DAO Suit

    Susman Godfrey LLP has asked a federal judge in California to allow it to serve as co-lead counsel in an investor lawsuit against decentralized autonomous organization Lido DAO and its large institutional investors over allegedly unregistered securities sold in the form of crypto tokens.

  • January 09, 2025

    CFPB Taps First Open Banking Industry Standards Setter

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has given Financial Data Exchange Inc. the green light to set standards for open banking in a first of its kind approval aimed at giving customers more control over their financial data.

  • January 09, 2025

    FTX Squabbles With Crypto Startup Over EU Distributions

    The estate of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said it had no involvement with a startup cryptocurrency exchange's announcement that it had purchased FTX EU and would be handling distributions to former customers of the FTX European subsidiary.

  • January 09, 2025

    Gordon Rees Adds Former Fintech GC In NY, Miami

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP said Thursday that it has brought on a new financial services partner who recently served as general counsel at fintech firms.

  • January 09, 2025

    Chamber, Bank Groups Press For Halt To CFPB Overdraft Rule

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Bank Policy Institute and several other banking industry groups have added their voices in opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new $5 overdraft fee rule through amici curiae briefs filed in Mississippi federal court.

  • January 09, 2025

    Trump's Return Brings 'Deeper Anxiety' To DOJ Fraud Attys

    White collar practitioners say they've heard from U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who are anxiously bracing for the possibility of working with fewer resources while confined to narrower enforcement priorities after Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office.

  • January 08, 2025

    CFPB Plots Personal Lender Oversight, Funds Access Rules

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday that it plans to pursue a pair of rulemakings aimed at speeding up the availability of deposited funds at banks and bringing larger nonbank personal lenders under its supervision.

  • January 08, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Grills USAA On Bid To Revive Patent In $218M Case

    The United Services Automobile Association faced a skeptical Federal Circuit panel Wednesday as it argued that an administrative board's invalidation of claims in its check deposit patent, which is part of a $218 million verdict against PNC Bank, conflicted with a prior decision upholding the patent.

  • January 08, 2025

    Quantitative Trader Accused Of Stealing Firm's Source Code

    New York federal prosecutors have accused a quantitative trader of stealing the secrets of a billion-dollar company's source code from his former employer to use at his own trading firm, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York federal court.

  • January 08, 2025

    NY Fed Beats Puerto Rico Bank's Suit Over Master Account

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday tossed without prejudice a Puerto Rico bank's suit that sought to block the closure of its Federal Reserve master account, finding the New York Fed's interpretation of the Federal Reserve Act was correct and that the bank does not have a statutory right to a master account.

  • January 08, 2025

    PowerPlan To Pay $24M, Ending Rival's Monopoly Claims

    Roper Technologies subsidiary PowerPlan Inc. has agreed to pay $24 million in a settlement with a rival firm formed by former employees who said the utility software giant tried to lock them out of the market by threatening litigation against them and prospective clients.

  • January 08, 2025

    Shkreli Wants Wu-Tang To Weigh In On Crypto Album Fight

    Martin Shkreli told a Brooklyn federal judge that the writer and producer of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album should weigh in on their rights to the work as the crypto project that purchased the album presses ahead with a suit accusing the pharma bro of keeping copies of the album after he was ordered to give them up.

  • January 08, 2025

    Musk Appeals $56B Pay Package Rejection To Del. High Court

    Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk and other top Tesla executives officially appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday a series of chancellor rulings that scuttled Musk's $56 billion, 10-year pay package and awarded a shareholder's counsel $345 million in fees in the yearslong derivative dispute.

  • January 08, 2025

    Canadian Payment Systems Co. Hits Ch. 15 As It Seeks Buyer

    Vancouver-based Felix Payment Systems Ltd. has filed a Chapter 15 petition in North Carolina with CA$19 million ($13.2 million) in liabilities, saying it needs to shield its assets from creditors as it moves to restructure through Canadian insolvency proceedings.

Expert Analysis

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    A Day In The In-House Life: Best Egg CLO Talks Power Of Prep

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    On a typical Monday in her life, Best Egg Chief Legal Officer Amy Thoreson Long chronicles a remote workday in which she makes time for everything from getting ahead on regulatory issues and researching recent Supreme Court decisions to dog walks and podcast breaks.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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    In The CFPB Playbook: No Lazy, Hazy Days Of Summer

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is headed for a brisk fall season, on the heels of a heated summer, which included the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the CFPB funding structure is constitutional, and in advance of the November election, says Eamonn Moran at Holland & Knight.

  • Payward And The Secondary Crypto Transaction Confusion

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    Following orders in cases against Coinbase and Binance, the recent California federal court ruling in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Payward raises even more questions about regulation of secondary transactions involving crypto-assets, as it tries to sidestep fundamental flaws in the SEC's legal theories, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers

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    A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • Key Takeaways From DOJ's New Corp. Compliance Guidance

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s updated guidance to federal prosecutors on evaluating corporate compliance programs addresses how entities manage new technology-related risks and expands on preexisting policies, providing key insights for companies about increasing regulatory expectations, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • What's In The Cards For CFTC's Election Betting Case

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    A D.C. federal judge's Sept. 12 ruling, allowing KalshiEx to offer derivative contracts trading on the outcome of the U.S. congressional elections over objections from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, could mark a watershed moment in the permissibility of election betting if upheld on appeal, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • FDIC's Cautious Approach To Industrial Banks, Reaffirmed

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    Although the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. recently approved an industrial loan company's deposit insurance application and proposed new rules regarding parent companies, these developments do not represent a liberalization or modernization of the FDIC's regulatory framework, say Max Bonici and Andrew Bigart at Venable.

  • Kubient Case Shows SEC's Willingness To Charge Directors

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent fraud charges against Kubient's former CEO, chief financial officer and audit committee chair signal a willingness to be more aggressive against officers and directors, underscoring the need for companies to ensure that they have appropriate channels to gather, investigate and document employee concerns, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

  • Basel Endgame Rules: A Change Is Coming

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    The Federal Reserve Board's recently announced recalibration of the Basel endgame proposal begins a critical chapter in the evolution of not only the safety and soundness of U.S. banks, but also of banks' abilities to lend and support American businesses and consumers, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • 4 Takeaways From The FDIC's Proposed Recordkeeping Rule

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    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new proposed rule would impose recordkeeping and other compliance requirements on custodial deposit accounts with transactional features, and practitioners should be aware of four important factors, including who is affected and who is exempt, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

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