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• January 23, 2026

  Coinbase Moves To End Suit Over SEC, 'Bankruptcy' Warnings

  Coinbase and its top brass have again urged a New Jersey federal judge to toss a class action alleging the cryptocurrency exchange misled investors about its regulatory risks and bankruptcy concerns, arguing investors were given enough notice about a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and that new Third Circuit rulings undercut the suit's claims.

• January 23, 2026

  Intel Case Sets Up Justices To Tackle 401(k) Benchmarks

  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a suit challenging target-date fund offerings in two Intel employee 401(k) plans gives benefits attorneys hope that clarity is coming on whether meaningful benchmarks are required to plead that investment underperformance breached fiduciary duties under federal benefits law.

• January 23, 2026

  Navigating The New Wave Of Voluntary Benefit ERISA Suits

  Four recent complaints claiming that employees pay unreasonable premiums for voluntary benefit programs contribute to a trend in Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions targeting employers and benefits consultants over such programs, increasing scrutiny of how the programs are selected, priced and administered, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

• January 23, 2026

  5 Compliance Takeaways From FINRA's Oversight Report

  The priorities outlined in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's recently released annual oversight report focus on the organization's core mission of protecting investors, with AI being the sole new topic area, but financial firms can expect further reforms aimed at efficiency and modernization, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.

• January 23, 2026

  How SEC Civil Penalties Became Arbitrary: 3 Potential Fixes

  Data shows that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's seemingly unlimited authority to levy monetary penalties on market participants has diverged far from the federal securities laws' limitations, but three reforms can help reverse the trend, say David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher and Phil Lieberman at Vanderbilt Law.

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