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June 23, 2025
Shift4 Buying New Zealand Fintech Smartpay In $180M Deal
Allentown, Pennsylvania-based payments company Shift4 has agreed to acquire Smartpay, an independent provider of payment processing solutions in Australia and New Zealand, for NZ$296.4 million ($180 million).
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June 23, 2025
Ex-SEC Atty Joins Bernstein Litowitz After Musk Fight
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's former chief litigation counsel announced on Monday that he is joining investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP as a partner in New York following a courtroom battle with Elon Musk that threatened to end his employment before it began.
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June 23, 2025
Wealthfront Joins IPO Pipeline With Confidential Filing
Digital wealth management firm Wealthfront Corp. said Monday that it confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a first step toward going public as more technology firms join a recovering IPO pipeline.
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June 23, 2025
Crypto Exec Seeks 5th Circ. Redo Over IRS Summonses
A cryptocurrency executive asked the Fifth Circuit to reconsider his request to quash IRS summonses for his bank records, saying its decision that he was prematurely trying to appeal a lower court's ruling ignored his claims that the agency's documents were incomplete and lacked legal power.
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June 23, 2025
4 Firms Build $1B Bitcoin SPAC Merger
Bitcoin-native financial services firm ProCap BTC, which is led by American investor and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano, on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Columbus Circle Capital Corp. I in a deal built by four law firms that will create a combined business with up to $1 billion in bitcoin on its balance sheet.
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June 20, 2025
MicroStrategy Brass Face Suit Over $5.9B Bitcoin Loss
Executives and directors of bitcoin-focused software company MicroStrategy Inc. face a shareholder derivative complaint alleging they made over $31 million selling off company stock while its shares were artificially inflated by misrepresentations about the magnitude of upcoming changes to the company's accounting practices for its so-called bitcoin treasury.
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June 20, 2025
Many Foreign Firms Could Face Stricter Access To US Markets
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reevaluation of the definition of a foreign private issuer could have far-reaching consequences, potentially tightening access to U.S. markets for companies based in China and beyond, lawyers say.
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June 20, 2025
Trump Inks Rollback Of Biden-Era OCC Bank Merger Rule
President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation nullifying the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Biden-era bank merger rule, clinching a Republican campaign to overturn what industry groups criticized as an overly restrictive and unclear framework for reviewing proposed transactions.
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June 20, 2025
Democrats Probe Credit Union Board's Authority After Firings
Top Democrats on Friday questioned the National Credit Union Administration's chairman about his authority to run the agency solo since President Donald Trump fired the agency's other two board members, raising concerns about the legality of recent agency actions.
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June 20, 2025
Legal And Finance Influencer To Settle Over FTX Promotion
Attorney and personal finance influencer Erika Kullberg and the talent agency she founded have reached a deal with FTX investors over their alleged roles promoting the now-collapsed crypto exchange.
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June 20, 2025
Walmart Shells Out $10M To Resolve FTC Money Transfer Suit
Walmart has agreed to pay $10 million to put to rest the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the retailer "turned a blind eye to scammers" who facilitated fraud through its money transfer services, according to an announcement made Friday.
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June 20, 2025
Senate's sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, PCAOB Cuts Hit Parliamentarian Roadblock
The U.S. Senate parliamentarian has thrown cold water on the Senate Banking Committee's bids to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as part of the "One Big Beautiful" budget megabill, but the panel's top Republican is vowing to keep seeking further spending cuts.
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June 20, 2025
Apple Hit With Securities Suit Over IPhone AI Feature Delays
An Apple investor hit the tech giant and its top brass with a proposed securities class action in California federal court Friday, alleging they duped investors into believing Apple would launch new artificial intelligence Siri features on the iPhone 16 and caused Apple stock to tumble after the rollout was delayed repeatedly.
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June 20, 2025
Apple Opposes Class Cert. Bid In Mobile Wallet Monopoly Suit
Apple Inc. has pushed back against a bid for class certification in a suit accusing it of unlawfully monopolizing the "tap and pay" mobile wallet market for its own devices by blocking competition, saying the bid does not offer common evidence to support the plaintiffs' various claims.
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June 20, 2025
SEC Axes 3 More Dealer Suits In Continued Policy Shift
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits accusing a hedge fund and two penny stock traders of operating as unregistered securities dealers, continuing the new Republican leadership's shift away from pursuing cases that defendants argued unlawfully expanded agency oversight.
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June 20, 2025
Major Nations Endorse New Payment Transparency Standards
Authorities from the U.S., China and other major countries have endorsed payment transparency standards slated to take effect in 2030 that would require information on peer-to-peer cross-border payments above $1,000, according to the Financial Action Task Force.
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June 18, 2025
NY Prosecutors Seize Crypto Linked To Social Media Scams
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday said her office and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office collaborated to seize and freeze $440,000 worth of cryptocurrency that was stolen via Facebook scams targeting Russian-speaking communities in the city and beyond.
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June 18, 2025
US Seizes $225M In Crypto Tied To 'Pig Butchering' Schemes
Law enforcement on Wednesday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to help it return more than $225.3 million worth of stolen digital assets to victims of phony crypto investment schemes, including to a small Kansas bank that failed after its CEO got entangled in a so-called pig butchering scheme, as part of what the U.S. Department of Justice called its largest ever seizure connected with such scams.
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June 18, 2025
Dealmakers Eye More Crypto-Targeted SPAC Mergers
More special purpose acquisition companies plan to seize upon the revival of cryptocurrencies under a second Trump administration and take cryptocurrency-related ventures public in the coming months, an attorney told a gathering of dealmakers on Wednesday.
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June 18, 2025
Cleo AI Wants Service Member's Predatory-Lending Suit Nixed
Online lender Cleo AI Inc. is seeking the dismissal of claims that it targeted military members with predatory lending practices, arguing that under relevant law, its "non-recourse advances" don't count as credit — and that, anyway, its users all agreed to arbitrate any disputes when they signed up to use its services.
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June 18, 2025
AGs Tell 3rd Circ. To Close 'Loophole' In Kalshi Betting Case
A bipartisan group of attorneys general co-led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, pressed the Third Circuit to prevent trading platform Kalshi's "broad preemptive coup," urging the appellate court to allow New Jersey to regulate the company.
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June 17, 2025
Protego Takes $200M Crypto Bank Suit To Wash. Court
Protego Holdings Corp. has re-launched a lawsuit in Washington state court blaming a Texas investment firm for failing to carry out a $200 million investment pledge in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank, which never materialized because rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed over financing concerns.
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June 17, 2025
Senate Passes Stablecoin Legislation With Bipartisan Support
The Senate's proposal to regulate stablecoins passed the chamber on Tuesday with support from both parties, sending it on to the House where lawmakers are still working on their own proposal.
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June 17, 2025
Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.
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June 17, 2025
Nixon Peabody Taps Fintech-Focused Attys From K&L Gates
Two longtime K&L Gates LLP fintech and financial services partners have joined Nixon Peabody LLP in the firm's complex disputes practice.
Expert Analysis
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Pay Cos. That Adapt Can Benefit As Gov't Ends Paper Checks
Recent executive orders, instructing the government to cease issuing paper checks and to modernize and fraud-proof federal payments, will likely benefit financial services providers that facilitate government disbursements — provided they can manage the challenges and risks of transitioning to fully digital payments, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Staying The Course On Consumer Financial Law Compliance
Although there may be some regulatory uncertainty, with many rule changes on hold, and enforcement actions and investigations terminated, 11 fundamental laws and rules governing consumer financial services are unlikely to change, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master
As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Ban On Reputation Risk May Help Bank Enforcement Defense
The Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s recent commitment to stop examining banks for reputation risk could help defendants in enforcement actions challenge unfavorable assessments and support defendants' arguments for lower civil money penalties, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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How Calif., NY Could Fill Consumer Finance Regulatory Void
California and New York have historically taken the lead in consumer financial protection, and both show signs of becoming even more active in this area during the second Trump administration amid an enforcement pullback at the federal level, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Series
Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Limit On SEC Enforcement Authority May Mean Fewer Actions
Following a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission final rule revoking the Enforcement Division director's long-standing authority to issue formal investigation orders, it's clear the division is headed for a new era of limited autonomy, marked by a significantly slower pace of SEC investigations, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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How Lenders Should Prepare For Crypto As Collateral
Amid the administration's desire to position the U.S. as a digital banking leader, lenders should prepare for customers seeking to use cryptocurrency as collateral for financing, consider which rules govern these transactions, and assess their ability to obtain or maintain control of the virtual funds, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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As SEC, CFTC Retreat, Who Will Police The Crypto Markets?
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pull back from policing the crypto markets, the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have the authority to pick up the slack — although recent events raise doubts that they will do so, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Ways Banking Has Changed In 5 Years Since COVID
Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, technology, convenience and shifting expectations have transformed compliance for the financial services industry in several key ways, from the shrinking role of the traditional bank branch to the rise of fintech and mobile payments, says Christopher Pippett at Fox Rothschild.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Making Sense Of Small Biz Fair Lending Compliance
Despite the uncertainty brought on by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent efforts to revise fair lending data collection requirements under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the compliance dates have not yet been stayed, so covered institutions should still start to monitor any disparities now, say attorneys at Frost Brown Todd.
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Opinion
Ripple Settlement Offers Hope For Better Regulatory Future
The recent settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple — in which the agency agreed to return $75 million of a $125 million fine — vindicates criticisms of the SEC and highlights the urgent need for a complete overhaul of its crypto regulation, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.