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

  • March 06, 2026

    Failed Fintech Synapse Is Sued Over Missing Customer Funds

    Collapsed fintech middleware firm Synapse Financial Technologies, its brokerage subsidiary and its former executives have caught a proposed class action seeking to take the firm to task over alleged misrepresentations and mismanagement that left $85 million in customer funds unaccounted for.

  • March 06, 2026

    Oregon Passes Bill To Limit Out-Of-State Bank Interest Rates

    Oregon lawmakers have approved legislation opting it out of a federal law that lets state-chartered banks export their home-state interest rates nationwide, advancing a measure similar to one in Colorado that is tied up in Tenth Circuit litigation. 

  • March 06, 2026

    Ex-Software CFO Gets 2 Years For $35M Crypto Fraud Scheme

    The former chief financial officer of a Seattle software startup will spend two years behind bars after being found guilty of bilking $35 million from his ex-employer, according to the terms of a sentence handed down Thursday by a Washington federal judge.

  • March 06, 2026

    FinCEN Hits Canaccord With Record $80M Broker-Dealer Fine

    Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.'s broker-dealer arm Friday agreed to pay $80 million in settlements with three financial regulators for "widespread compliance failures" that allowed some securities fraud schemes to go undetected, with the broker-dealer admitting it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

  • March 06, 2026

    Polymarket Pushes For Block On Mich. Gambling Enforcement

    Polymarket US urged a Michigan federal judge to block the Great Lakes State from initiating any illegal gambling enforcement action against it, saying its prediction market exchange falls entirely under the purview of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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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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  • 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.