Law News

India is seeing the first signs of an anticipated brain drain as the government considers stark legislation that would criminalize domestic cryptocurrency inves...

BitMEX parent firm HDR Global hired a former executive of French banking group BNP Paribas as the group’s general counsel.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission reaches $10 million settlement with a Dallas-based digital assets company and its founders.

GlobalFoundries, the world’s second-biggest semiconductor foundry by sales after TSMC, has filed multiple infringement lawsuits against its competitor.

The chairman of the US SEC says he is for technological solutions that reduce the cost of international payments, but the SEC won’t change the law to facilitate...

From CT auf Deutsch: a highly active BaFin and a bankruptcy filing from an Austrian crypto ATM start-up lead the week’s news from the German-speaking world.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled charges it filed in 2018 against a crypto pyramid scheme involving four individuals, with the defendants paying $5...

Bitpoint Taiwan, a subsidiary of Bitpoint Japan, claimed $9.4 damages for loss due to overbilling after $32 million hack of parent exchange in July.

The U.S. Department of Treasury has sanctioned three alleged narcotics operators and their crypto addresses.

Bitfinex and Tether have acknowledged the judge’s decision not to dismiss their case due to a claimed lack of jurisdiction in New York but plan to appeal.

A Canadian judge has dismissed a motion to set aside an asset freeze in a civil forfeiture case involving the purported FUEL token.

Global investor sentiment toward the crypto industry seems to have shifted in recent years. Here’s how the regulations surrounding this space look in 2019…

The upcoming implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 has grave implications for businesses utilizing blockchain technology...

The judge overseeing the Kleiman V. Wright case has denied Wright’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, citing lack of credibility.

The U.S. SEC has reached a settlement agreement with entities alleged to have broken securities laws in an ICO that netted over $8 million.