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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Like Lutnick, Squires has extensive fintech experience. Squires’ practice at Dilworth Paxson has continued to focus on emerging technologies including AI, blockchain, and fintech. Squires, currently a partner at Dilworth Paxson and former chief IP counsel at Goldman Sachs, is expected to be nominated as the next USPTO Director.

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JULY 1, 2021

The SEC, on the other hand….

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Mondaq

APRIL 1, 2022

Since the announcement of its fintech strategy in November 2017, the Bermuda government has positioned Bermuda as a market-leading jurisdiction with respect to fintech.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Four highlights from this post : AI and Women's Employment in Europe; Digital Innovations for Increasing Financial Inclusion: CBDC, Cryptocurrency, Embedded finance, Artificial Intelligence, WaaS, Fintech, Bigtech, and DeFi; 2025 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets; and AI in Finance Summit New York, April 15-16, 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

s rulemaking board on Tuesday proposed new recordkeeping rules aimed at both shoring up consumer protections as more fintech firms enter the banking space, and preventing a repeat of account freezes that have occurred after fintech service provider Synapse entered into bankruptcy earlier this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Investing in the growth of a country’s fintech sector should also entail investing in appropriate regulations across entities in the sector. India’s fintech sector recently saw a 68% boost in funding, making the country the fourth highest-funded fintech startup ecosystem globally.

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Law 360

APRIL 9, 2025

began trading Wednesday after pricing a $240 million initial public offering in pursuit of a merger with a fintech or related business, represented by Winston & Strawn LLP and underwriters' counsel Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP. Special purpose acquisition company Titan Acquisition Corp.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Executives of fintech company Ryvyl Inc. have shed some claims from an investor suit accusing them of concealing accounting problems, with a California federal judge ruling that the investors have not sufficiently pleaded that the defendants knowingly acted recklessly or committed wrongful acts.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2024

The Federal Reserve filed a cease-and-desist order against an Arkansas bank Friday requiring it to obtain federal and state approval before partnering with any fintech companies going forward after the agency identified risk management deficiencies in recent safety and compliance exams.

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Law 360

JANUARY 9, 2025

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

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Law 360

MAY 29, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent, expansive pursuit of financial services companies using sensitive personal information signals a move into the Federal Trade Commission's territory, and the path forward for fintech and financial service providers involves a balance between innovation and compliance, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini. (..)

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Law 360

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC has added a former fintech general counsel and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney, reinforcing the firm's offerings for companies facing enforcement investigations or grappling with other compliance issues.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This week on the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the naming rights agreement between the Los Angeles Clippers and Intuit whereby the Clippers agreed to name their new $1.8 billion arena in Inglewood, California, the Intuit Dome. Read more about the agreement, here.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

McGuireWoods LLP continues to bolster its West Coast presence, announcing Tuesday that it has added a former federal prosecutor and the former general counsel for a fintech company as partners at its San Francisco office.

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JUNE 24, 2024

A Florida federal judge on Monday sentenced the CEO of fintech company Hydrogen Technology Corp. to more than three years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to manipulate the market for Hydrogen's digital assets.

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Law 360

MAY 31, 2024

The current and former top brass of Nigerian fintech company Tingo Group Inc. have been hit with a derivative suit in New Jersey federal court over revelations of fraud at the company, which has led to other litigation, including actions launched by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday sued Walmart and fintech company Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers to use costly deposit accounts to receive their wages and deceiving them about how to access their earnings.

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Law 360

JUNE 25, 2024

The former head of financial engineering at fintech company Hydrogen Technology Corp. was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for conspiring to manipulate the market for Hydrogen's digital assets.

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Law 360

JANUARY 27, 2025

A Georgia federal judge has declined to dismiss most of a British fintech company's suit against Atlanta-based accounting firm Frazier & Deeter LLC over an allegedly bungled stock valuation, ruling Monday that a hold harmless clause in the companies' contract was largely unenforceable.

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Law 360

JUNE 21, 2024

Former congressional hopeful and cryptocurrency veteran Michelle Bond announced on Thursday her formation of fintech policy think tank Digital Future, making a return to financial services policy after the recent sentencing of her partner, former FTX executive Ryan Salame, and FTX-linked donations to her 2022 campaign.

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Law 360

MARCH 13, 2025

A fintech startup that went belly up after a $1.7 billion deal to take it public fell apart told a Texas federal court that Chapman and Cutler LLP helped the startup's CEO stab it in the back, saying in a Thursday complaint the firm breached its fiduciary duties.

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Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2024

A broad coalition of bank and fintech trade groups has called for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to back off from a recently proposed revamp of its rules on "hot money," or brokered deposits, arguing the plan was put forward "without sufficient or transparent data or robust policy rationale."

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Law 360

JULY 8, 2024

Fintech company Current must allow the deposition of its former general counsel in a suit claiming it fostered a discriminatory work culture, a New York federal magistrate judge has ruled though the judge limited the deposition to focus on discrimination the general counsel may have personally experienced or witnessed.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

has sued fintech Solid Financial Technologies Inc. Sidelined money transfer venture Zelf Inc. in Delaware's Superior Court, accusing Solid of fraudulently representing that it could support anonymous banking and cryptocurrency services based only on a customer's name, email and phone number.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Italian FinTech Sandbox (the "Sandbox") has been introduced by means of Ministerial Decree no. 100 of 2nd July 2021 (the "Decree") , which entered into force on 17th July 2021.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a FinTech Note on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) this Wednesday. Analogous to a digital form of paper money, a CBDC is a digital liability of a central bank that is available to the general public.

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Law 360

MAY 11, 2022

Crypto exchanges FTX US and Binance were among a trio of fintech firms that announced compliance-related hires Wednesday, with the latter company appointing a former deputy U.S. attorney in California to help oversee its legal department and global compliance.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2022

A California state regulator is defending its claims accusing fintech firm Opportunity Financial LLC of ripping off borrowers in the state with high-cost, "rent-a-bank" lending, telling a Los Angeles state court that the company's bid for dismissal clashes with California's approach to combating usury.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The post FinTech 2022: Banking, Securities, And Related Legal Issues appeared first on Above the Law. The financial services industry continues to evolve. Stay current with this program from PLI.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2024

A California federal judge has dismissed the underwriters and significantly trimmed the remaining claims in a case against fintech company Ryvyl Inc.

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MAY 3, 2024

Sentencing for the CEO of fintech company Hydrogen Technology Corp. was delayed Friday after a dispute over how to calculate the amount of money lost in the conspiracy to manipulate the market for Hydrogen's digital assets.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The amount of plastic that it takes to produce credit cards every year is equivalent to the weight of 150 Boeing 747 airplanes. .

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A Washington state-based fintech firm that provides payment solutions to cannabis retailers failed to pay the final $500,000 in a $7.5 million deal to buy a rival company, according to a breach-of-contract suit filed in Seattle federal court.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Prosecutors have asked a Manhattan federal judge to deny a joint motion from two fintech executives accused of defrauding JPMorgan seeking a large cache of documents from the bank, saying it is a corporate victim and not a part of the investigation.

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Law 360

JANUARY 11, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission filed a new lawsuit Thursday in New York federal court against the CEO of a fintech firm it claims made secretive purchases of his own company's stock in order to inflate the price and avoid delisting from Nasdaq.

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Law 360

AUGUST 16, 2023

Fintech company Ryvyl Inc. and certain executives and underwriters have asked a California federal judge to toss a proposed investor class action accusing them of concealing accounting issues, claiming the amended complaint does not support allegations that the company's filings had misstatements or omissions.

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Mondaq

MAY 5, 2022

In this regular update, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 29 April 2022.

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