Fintech

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

  • October 30, 2026

    CFTC Seeks To Block Utah Prediction Market Actions

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking a Utah federal judge to temporarily block the state from pursuing enforcement actions against prediction market platforms, including Utah's active civil and criminal cases against Kalshi.

  • October 30, 2026

    The SEC Is Reading Your Corporate AI Disclosures

    The top cop at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says agency attorneys are on the lookout for at least two types of artificial intelligence-related fraud: those that use AI to dupe social media users and those committed by companies that fail to properly disclose their use of the new technology.

  • October 30, 2026

    2nd Circ. To Hear CFTC At Kalshi, Conn. Oral Arguments

    The Second Circuit on Friday said it would permit the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to share its views on prediction market regulation at upcoming oral arguments between Kalshi and Connecticut regulators.

  • October 30, 2026

    Davis Polk-Led Fintech Startup OPay Prices $304M IPO

    Nigerian digital bank and financial technology startup OPay began trading publicly in the U.S. on Friday after it raised $304 million in its initial public offering steered by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

  • October 30, 2026

    FinCEN Scam Alerts Push Banks To Rethink AML Monitoring

    Recent Financial Crimes Enforcement Network guidance on digital asset scams suggests that future anti-money laundering examinations may focus less on whether institutions detect the movement of criminal proceeds and more on whether they can identify fraud schemes before victims suffer catastrophic losses, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

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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

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  • 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.