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 07, 2026

    States Urge Justices To Fix Prediction Markets' Legal 'Chaos'

    A coalition of 39 states and the District of Columbia urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to resolve a circuit split over the regulation of prediction markets like Kalshi, saying the industry's "aggressive theory of preemption" threatens states' sovereignty and ability to protect their residents. 

  • October 07, 2026

    Feds Back High Court Review Of Robinhood Disclosure Suit

    The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to take up Robinhood Markets Inc.'s bid to clarify securities issuers' liability for omitting material interim financial information from registration statements, saying the Ninth Circuit erroneously imposes liability by "collapsing" two elements of a misleading-omissions violation.

  • October 07, 2026

    Tether Accused Of Damaging Tech Co. With $2.8M Freeze

    Fintech payment company Conduit Technology says stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings damaged its business and is seeking injunctive relief over Tether's decision to freeze about $2.8 million Conduit stored in a digital wallet.

  • October 07, 2026

    Crypto Founder Indicted Over $9M Crypto Rug Pull

    Cryptocurrency founder Alexander Sisemore has been indicted in Illinois federal court for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that netted him about $9 million, with prosecutors alleging he concealed tokens he had allocated himself for free and surreptitiously sold them while misleading investors about the project's ownership.

  • October 07, 2026

    Egan-Jones Taps Ex-SEC Examiner To Oversee Ratings

    Egan-Jones Ratings Co. announced Wednesday that it has appointed a former branch chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Credit Ratings as its senior director of ratings, several weeks after the SEC ruled that the firm will not be designated a nationally recognized statistical rating organization for rating bonds or asset-backed securities.

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  • 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
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  • Professors, students and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.