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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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February 05, 2026
Bessent Knocks 'Nihilist' Crypto Critics Of Market Reg. Bill
U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday defended Republican-backed legislation to regulate crypto markets as critical to the future of digital assets in the U.S., telling senators that industry players who are holding out "should move to El Salvador."
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February 05, 2026
SEC Data Contractor To Pay $1.5M Over Faked Audit Cert.
The CEO of a data infrastructure company that contracted with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $1.5 million as part of a pretrial diversion agreement to resolve charges that he fraudulently claimed his business was certified for high-level reliability and security.
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February 05, 2026
Kalshi Taps White & Case Alum As Enforcement Head
Kalshi announced Thursday that it has selected a former White & Case LLP associate to serve as its head of enforcement, as the prediction market expands its market surveillance and enforcement framework.
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February 05, 2026
Polymarket Hit With Class Action For 'Disguising' Sports Bets
Prediction market company Polymarket has been hit with a class action in New York federal court targeting its sports event contracts, which the suit alleges are disguised sports gambling offers meant to evade state regulation and scrutiny.
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February 05, 2026
Crypto Lender Nexo Can't Exit Suit Over Liquidated Loans
Crypto lender Nexo Capital Inc. must face a customer's suit accusing the firm of misleading him about fees and causing him millions of dollars in losses through forced liquidations of his crypto assets, a California magistrate judge determined, saying that several of the plaintiff's claims have been sufficiently asserted in the pleading stage.
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.