Introduction On June 7, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) (together, the “Senators”) introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill that seeks to create a…
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…
The cryptocurrency industry last week experienced a turbulence long predicted by industry observers. The third largest stablecoin, TerraUSD (“UST”), lost its one-to-one peg to the U.S. dollar about 10 days…
On April 28, 2022, a bipartisan group of legislators in the House of Representatives re-introduced and updated a bill regarding proposed regulatory oversight by the CFTC of crypto exchanges on…
Yesterday, President Biden signed an Executive Order (the “Order”) outlining, as described in the accompanying Fact Sheet, a “whole-of-government approach” to harness the benefits, and address the potential risks, of…
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 15, 2022, House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) released a discussion draft of a bill (the “bill”) that would create bank-like regulation for stablecoin issuers.…
Originally Published: February 17, 2022 Update: February 22, 2022 Last week, in a speech at the U.S Monetary Policy Forum in New York, FRB Governor Lael Brainard continued to tout the…
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…
Although the policy outlook remains uncertain, more policymakers are encouraging bank-like regulation for stablecoin issuers. Following on the November 2021 stablecoin report (the “Stablecoin Report”) issued by the President’s Working…