Oct 31, 2019 Paxos Awarded No-Action Letter for Blockchain-Based Equity Securities Settlement Platform By A&O Shearman On October 28, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded a no-action letter to Paxos Trust Company that will allow the...
Oct 22, 2019 Distilling U.S. Regulatory Environment and Market Access Considerations for Growing FinTechs By A&O Shearman The rise of global FinTech has brought markets together and enabled cross-border business formation and innovation, but local regulations...
Oct 21, 2019 SEC Order Freezes Alleged Unregistered Digital Token Offering By A&O Shearman Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a temporary restraining order freezing an alleged unregistered...
Oct 18, 2019 Financial Stability Board to Assess Potential Risks of Stablecoin By A&O Shearman The Financial Stability Board has published a report on regulatory issues arising with respect to so-called stablecoins. The FSB defines...
Oct 18, 2019 G7 Working Group Reports on the Impact of Global Stablecoin By A&O Shearman The G7 working group on stablecoins has published a report investigating the impact of global stablecoins. The working group is comprised...
Oct 15, 2019 Shearman & Sterling Demo Day with Empire Startups By Donna Parisi Our Demo Day event with Empire Startups in Lower Manhattan brought together nearly a hundred members from the venture community,...
Oct 07, 2019 Building a Data Business By Barney Reynolds Shearman & Sterling partners Emma Maconick, Nathan Greene and Barney Reynolds and counsel Sara Ashall discussed the business-planning...