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March 16, 2026
Cryptocurrency platform Abra said Monday that it will go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal advised by four firms that's based on a $750 million valuation for Abra.
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March 16, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that its enforcement director, Margaret "Meg" Ryan, has resigned from the agency after nearly seven months on the job.
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March 16, 2026
Cryptocurrency company BlockFills has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with up to $500 million in debt weeks after pausing customer withdrawals amid a selloff in crypto markets.
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March 13, 2026
The Tenth Circuit on Friday denied a full court reconsideration of an earlier decision granting Federal Reserve banks discretion to reject master bank accounts, but a dissenting judge argued in favor of crypto-focused Custodia Bank's position that the decision would give the Fed too much power over state banks.
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March 13, 2026
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. has escaped, for now, allegations it facilitated Iran's terrorism financing, though an Alabama federal judge has given the plaintiffs, who are suing over injuries and damages suffered from Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a chance to revise their "shotgun" pleading.
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March 13, 2026
Robinhood on Friday lost a second attempt to convince a Massachusetts federal judge to preemptively rule that sports event contracts are not subject to state gaming regulations.
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March 13, 2026
Kalshi must continue fighting Nevada's gaming enforcement action in state court as it pursues an appeal to litigate in federal court, a Nevada federal judge ruled, saying "litigating in state court is not a harm, let alone an irreparable harm."
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March 13, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said it is walking away from its case against the founder of cryptocurrency project BitClout that accused the founder of lying to investors about a $257 million unregistered securities sale and spending millions of proceeds for his own benefit.
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March 13, 2026
Connecticut lawmakers are one-third of the way through the state's three-month legislative session, and already, bills targeting social media, artificial intelligence, prediction markets, private equity and hospital ownership are stacking up at the statehouse.
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March 13, 2026
Special purpose acquisition company Voyager Acquisition II on Friday filed plans with U.S. regulators to raise up to $220 million in an initial public offering, with the goal of merging with an entity in the technology, fintech or healthcare sectors.
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March 13, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has blocked a pair of subpoenas tied to the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, finding they were improperly issued with the aim of harassing the central bank chief in a ruling that is reverberating on Capitol Hill.
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March 13, 2026
In London, Estée Lauder accused Jo Malone's founder of intellectual property infringement, the wife of an Iranian businessman linked to a £75 million fraud sued several Iranian oil companies, HSBC sued U.S. property tycoon Michael Fuchs, and Charles Russell Speechlys brought a claim against a United Arab Emirates company it once represented in an international arbitration.
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March 13, 2026
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Friday proposed an array of new initial public offering rules in order to attract more listings, including lowering thresholds for companies that have a dual-class structure.
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March 12, 2026
The Chapter 11 plan administrator for defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network urged a New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday to order Fireblocks to respond to discovery demands over the cybersecurity company's alleged "staggering negligence" that led to the destruction of cryptographic keys and the loss of Ethereum tokens worth tens of millions of dollars.
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March 12, 2026
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Thursday that federal regulators will move next week to propose a sweeping overhaul of U.S. bank capital rules, previewing changes that are expected to result in a "modest" net easing for larger banks.
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March 12, 2026
This edition of emerging copyright and trademark cases and trends looks at an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court that questions the definition of trademark "use in commerce" under the Lanham Act and a battle over the use of "Popeye" as a trademark.
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March 12, 2026
Federal prosecutors fired back at convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's pro se bid for a new trial as a "transparent attempt" to further allegedly false narratives that his collapsed crypto exchange was solvent, and he was a victim of political retribution.
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March 12, 2026
Three Democratic U.S. senators said Thursday that they will oversee a reported investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into potential Iran sanctions violations carried out on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
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March 12, 2026
PayPal executives and directors were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of damaging the company with comments about the strong growth trajectory for its branded checkout segment that the investor said turned out to be untrue.
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March 12, 2026
SoftBank Group Corp.-backed Japanese mobile payment service PayPay Corp. began trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday at $16 a share, below the range it had announced in early March as the war in Iran roils the market.
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March 12, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.
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March 11, 2026
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Travis Hill said Wednesday that his agency will propose expressly excluding payment stablecoins from pass-through insurance coverage, outlining the move as part of a wide-ranging update on his to-do list of regulatory initiatives.
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March 11, 2026
GreenSky LLC told a Georgia federal court Wednesday it's reached a settlement in a wage suit from former customer service employees a month after the fintech company won a bid to force the suit into arbitration.
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March 11, 2026
Two Democrats from California are proposing to outlaw event contracts that reference or relate to terrorism, war or an individual's death amid the rise of certain prediction markets involving political shake-ups.
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March 11, 2026
Kalshi sued Iowa state regulators Wednesday, seeking to stop the state from taking enforcement action against the prediction market's sports-event contracts, following a script that has played out across several states.