Recent turmoil in the cryptocurrency market has brought issues related to crypto-asset custody to the forefront of the crypto currency discourse;[1] in an enormous $1 trillion crypto-asset crash between approximately…
On March 8, 2022, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) issued for public comment proposed supplemental guidelines (“Supplemental Proposed Guidelines”) for Federal Reserve Banks (“Reserve Banks”) to use in evaluating requests…
On February 15, 2022, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (“Senate Banking Committee”) hosted a virtual hearing entitled, “Examining the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets…
On February 8, 2022, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services (“HFS”) hosted a virtual hearing entitled, “Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: The President’s Working Group on Financial…
The Banking Group of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP would like to welcome you to its newest client tool, the Debevoise Fintech Blog. The goal of the blog is to help…
The inter-agency crypto-asset policy sprint initiative has finally taken off. This morning the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
On November 21, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) published a letter “clarifying” that certain cryptocurrency, distributed ledger and stablecoin activities addressed in three prior interpretive…
On November 9, 2021, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “BCBS”) issued a press release that, among other things, reiterated its commitment to developing a “conservative risk-based global minimum…
On November 1, 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets,[1] the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (collectively, the “Financial…
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order (the “Order”)[1] on competition. While the Order is directed to agencies across the federal government and will have wide-ranging…