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 05, 2026

    Crypto 'Godfather' Who Hired Cops To Extort Gets 6.5 Years

    A Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency businessman who called himself "The Godfather" was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in restitution for getting Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to harass his enemies and for separately stealing from Meta, federal prosecutors announced.

  • October 05, 2026

    Feds Wrap Up Case In $53M Uranium Finance Theft Trial

    Manhattan federal prosecutors Monday concluded their case against a Maryland cybersecurity consultant accused of stealing about $53 million in crypto from Uranium Finance, a two-pronged heist that purportedly capitalized on "bugs" in smart contracts and brought about the end of the short-lived decentralized exchange.

  • October 05, 2026

    Kalshi Says User's Express Consent Bars Data Privacy Suit

    Kalshi urged a California federal court to end a proposed class action alleging the prediction market shared user information through third-party tracking tools, arguing Friday the plaintiff expressly consented to the alleged interceptions through Kalshi's privacy policy, which discloses the use of online advertising technologies, including Google Analytics.

  • October 05, 2026

    Coinbase Brass Beats Suit In Test Of Texas Incorporation Law

    Coinbase's top brass has escaped, for now, a shareholder derivative suit brought in Texas after the state's business court found that Texas law, rather than Delaware law, applies to the case even though the alleged wrongdoing occurred before Coinbase reincorporated in the Lone Star State.

  • October 05, 2026

    FinCEN Nixes Plans For Crypto Mixer, Wallet Reporting Rules

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is moving to scrap two long-dormant proposals aimed at increasing anti-money laundering oversight of transactions involving self-hosted crypto wallets and anonymizing crypto "mixers," measures that had faced stiff industry resistance.  

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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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  • 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.