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Fintech Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on financial technology. Coverage includes legal and regulatory developments in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin and initial coin offerings, as well as electronic payment systems, peer-to-peer lending, algorithmic trading and many other aspects of this fast-evolving area of the law.
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Latest News in Fintech
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March 06, 2026
Sidley Adds Payments Expert From Wilson Sonsini
Sidley Austin LLP announced that it has hired a finance and financial technology attorney and former senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, touting her experience advising companies across the payments ecosystem.
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March 06, 2026
Complaint Portal Updates Prove That The CFPB Is Listening
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent updates to its online complaint portal not only clarify complaint pathways and strengthen identity verification, but also signal that the bureau is more willing to consider industry perspectives on its activities and change course where warranted, say attorneys at Manatt.
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March 05, 2026
Fintech Sues Deutsche Bank, Pathward Over Pharma Flags
A self-described barter-based payment platform sued Deutsche Bank AG and Pathward NA, alleging it was improperly placed on an industry blacklist following the banks' assertions it was "transaction laundering" for companies selling gray-market peptides.
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March 05, 2026
Tokenized Securities Get Same Capital Treatment, Feds Say
Federal banking regulators said Thursday that the capital treatment of so-called tokenized securities is the same as their traditional counterparts, emphasizing that bank capital rules are "technology neutral" and don't change when a security is recorded on a distributed ledger.
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March 05, 2026
SEC To Settle Justin Sun Crypto Wash Trading Case
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it has reached a settlement with Tron founder Justin Sun to end a closely watched, Biden-era enforcement action, with one of Sun's companies set to pay a $10 million penalty for allegedly facilitating wash trading of the cryptocurrency TRX.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Trade Commission
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Self-regulatory organizations
- State and international regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- OCC Fintech Charter
- Regulatory sandboxes
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Securities Act
- Securities Exchange Act
- Securities Investor Protection Act
- Commodities Exchange Act
- Federal and state guidance on fintech products
- Federal and state legislation
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering fraud investigations
- Asset and credit freezes
- False advertising of fintech products
- Cybersecurity and privacy matters related to fintech companies
- Spoofing
- Federal criminal matters
- State enforcement actions
- LITIGATION
- Intellectual property matters
- Investor class actions
- Challenges to federal or state regulations
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial coin offerings
- Mergers and acquisitions of fintech companies
- Private equity and venture capital fundraising for fintech companies
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of law firm fintech practices
- General counsel interviews
Readership
- Fintech lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel, compliance officers and executives for fintech companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.