11/4/2019 12:00:00 AM Shearman & Sterling and the Global Blockchain Business Council Convene Panel on Stablecoins By A&O Shearman Shearman & Sterling and the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) convened a panel on Monday to discuss the world’s most talked about...
11/1/2019 12:00:00 AM Jay Baris Authors Chapter in Global Legal Insights: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation 2020 By A&O Shearman Partner Jay Baris (New York-Investment Funds) authored a chapter titled "The custody of digital assets – 2020" in the latest Global Legal...
10/31/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
10/22/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
9/24/2019 12:00:00 AM Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of Shearman & Sterling’s FinTech Foundry By A&O Shearman It’s been a year since the launch of the FinTech Foundry, Shearman & Sterling’s program dedicated to supporting the FinTech-related...
9/9/2019 12:00:00 AM Court Rejects CSBS Suit Over OCC FinTech Charter By A&O Shearman Last week, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Conference...
8/22/2019 12:00:00 AM SEC Stays Active in the Digital Asset Enforcement Space, Delays Bitcoin ETF Decisions By A&O Shearman In the first three weeks of August, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commenced or settled three enforcement actions related...
8/1/2019 12:00:00 AM SEC Issues No-Action Letter Allowing Sale of Ethereum-Based Tokens By A&O Shearman In a letter dated July 25, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Division) stated that it...
7/30/2019 12:00:00 AM Where Is the Digital Asset Market Headed? By Donna Parisi Partner Donna Parisi (New York - Derivatives & Structured Products) recently sat down with Rebank podcast host Will Beeson to discuss the...
7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM Considerations in Venture Capital and M&A Transactions in the AI Mobility Industry By A&O Shearman As part of the Global Legal Insights edition on AI, Machine Learning & Big Data, Partners Alan Bickerstaff (Austin – Emerging Growth),...
7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM Top Challenges Around Regulating Artificial Intelligence By A&O Shearman As artificial intelligence continues to advance and evolve, learn what the top challenges are around regulating the technology in the...