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March 18, 2026
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told attendees of a Wasington, D.C., crypto conference Wednesday that she's confident the Senate Banking Committee will mark up a bill to regulate crypto markets after the Easter break now that compromises on key issues including stablecoin yield are in the final stages.
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March 18, 2026
A Los Angeles man who allegedly took $2 million from federal COVID-19-related relief programs and used the money to fund cryptocurrency trading now faces money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud charges, according to a Department of Justice announcement issued Wednesday.
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March 18, 2026
Bank of America NA is the latest financial institution to face claims it aided and abetted a $328 million Ponzi scheme allegedly operated by the now-criminally charged CEO of cryptocurrency investment firm Goliath Ventures.
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March 18, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that requiring a consumer debtor to arbitrate credit card collection actions would interfere with the clear purpose of the federal bankruptcy code, upholding a pair of lower court rulings that found alleged automatic stay violations by Goldman Sachs Bank should be dealt with through bankruptcy adversary proceedings.
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March 18, 2026
Former Ruby Tuesday managers are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review their dispute alleging Regions Bank lost them $35 million in retirement plan benefits that were liquidated in bankruptcy, saying an appellate court erred in denying them monetary relief.
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March 18, 2026
A former bank CEO can't file another amended complaint against First Horizon Bank claiming he was set up as a scapegoat in the legal fallout of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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March 18, 2026
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he will stay on as a board member of the central bank if he remains under U.S. Department of Justice investigation when his term as Fed chairman runs out this spring.
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March 18, 2026
The Eighth Circuit appeared skeptical Wednesday of the reasoning behind a lower court's decision to toss a proposed class action alleging Wells Fargo's 401(k) forfeiture spending violated federal benefits law, but still expressed doubts about the case's viability.
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March 17, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shared its anticipated "token taxonomy" on Tuesday, issuing interpretive guidance that detailed which types of cryptocurrency assets appear to be beyond the reach of securities laws and the circumstances that could pull them back into the regulator's oversight as part of an investment contract.
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March 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday announced that Florida brokerage TradeStation Securities Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to settle potential civil liability for violating the regulator's sanctions programs for Iran, Syria and Crimea.
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March 17, 2026
BlackRock Inc. must face a suit in New York state court by a former vice president who alleges he faced retaliation and wrongful termination after raising concerns about self-dealing, corruption and conflicts of interest, with a state judge partially rejecting the asset manager's bid to dismiss the case.
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March 17, 2026
In separate amicus briefs to the D.C. Circuit, the ACLU, tech industry groups, former government officials and moral theologians variously panned the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security as unjustified, unlawful and counterproductive.
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March 17, 2026
Connecticut's banking watchdog has temporarily barred cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Depot from transmitting money, warning of possible civil penalties up to $100,000 per violation and accusing the entity of charging transaction fees above a 15% statutory cap.
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March 17, 2026
JPMorgan Chase urged a Manhattan federal court Monday to send a former employee's race discrimination and pay bias claims to arbitration, arguing that an in-house lawyer's mistaken assurance prior to litigation that she wasn't bound by an arbitration agreement doesn't amount to a waiver of the right to enforce it.
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March 17, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday vacated regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor that would have expanded the definition of an investment advice fiduciary under federal benefits law, changes that a collective of insurance groups said the federal agency didn't have the authority to make.
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March 17, 2026
A Florida federal judge sent two proposed class suits against Binance to arbitration Monday after finding that the arbitration provision of Binance's terms of use applied to the investors' claims that the exchange laundered stolen cryptocurrency.
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March 17, 2026
BlackRock and State Street have asked a Texas federal judge to significantly winnow antitrust claims from Republican state attorneys general accusing the asset managers of driving up coal prices, arguing that claims based on electricity buyers are too far removed from coal.
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March 17, 2026
The burgeoning prediction market has exploded the definition of what qualifies as confidential corporate information that employees could misuse for personal gain, leaving companies scrambling to update internal policies and guidelines, compliance experts say.
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March 17, 2026
New York's attorney general sued a solar panel company and two lending partners in New York state court Tuesday, accusing them of a $275 million scheme involving costly solar and home improvement projects falsely pitched to homeowners as free or subsidized.
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March 17, 2026
Mastercard said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion as the global payments giant looks to expand its "end-to-end support of digital assets" and connect blockchain-based payments with more traditional financial platforms.
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March 16, 2026
A top U.S. banking regulator is seconding the banking industry's call for the Seventh Circuit to block Illinois' tax and tip swipe-fee ban, arguing a lower-court judge missed the "forest for the trees" in ruling the state-law restrictions are enforceable against banks it oversees.
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March 16, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge has certified a class of EB-5 immigrant investors who claim TD Bank improperly released nearly $50 million of their funds from escrow, which allegedly caused the money to go missing and scuttled their efforts to seek visas.
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March 16, 2026
Online bill pay platform Doxo fought uphill at a hearing Monday in Washington federal court to beat the Federal Trade Commission's claims it misleads consumers, with the judge noting that Amazon.com Inc. had made some of the same arguments in the FTC's lawsuit targeting its Prime subscription program and lost.
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March 16, 2026
A federal magistrate judge has declined to pause discovery pending arbitration in an Illinois-based community bank's litigation seeking to determine the proper owner of $7 million it's holding in escrow for a Bulgarian natural gas construction project, saying he is not convinced a stay is warranted.
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March 16, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court was urged not to review a Second Circuit decision upholding a class certification ruling in a $12 billion antitrust case over municipal bonds, with the class telling the justices the lower court properly analyzed the supporting expert evidence.