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<p><span>Thank you to the Organising Partners and Patrons for the invitation to speak</span><span> here at City Week on key risks of digital assets.</span></p>
I. Introduction - The rise of cryptocurrencies and digital assets in the financial markets, including the investment management industry, has given rise to a crucial question: which...
SEC has the authority to govern securities, which has been defined to include, among other things investment contracts. a form of a digital asset is a note, investment contract or other type of security, it would be subject to SEC oversight and applicable securities laws.
[co-author: Lauren Bass] By: Cryptocurrency firm Bullish announced its intention to go public on the New York Stock Exchange as it prepares to launch a cryptocurrency exchange, according to a recent report. The company reportedly intends to accomplish the public listing via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. A major global payments company recently approved Australian company CryptoSpend to begin issuing cryptocurrency debit cards for its users, based on a report this week. CryptoSpend’s app will reportedly allow its users to spend their cryptocurrency directly, without t...
Monday, December 21, 2020 Virtual Currencies as Commodities In recent years, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) has taken a role as one of the regulators of cryptocurrency in the United States. In this article, we review the CFTC’s regulatory and enforcement approach in this space. In December 2014, the CFTC stated that virtual currencies are encompassed under the definition of a “commodity” in the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and thus subject to its jurisdiction. [1] Nine months later, in September 2015, the CFTC brought its first enforcem...