Monthly Archives: October 2017

CFTC Issues Report on Virtual Currencies

On October 17, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commision’s (the “CFTC”) LabCFTC, the CFTC’s division launched this year to look at financial technology (“FinTech”), issued a press release and its first primer (in the form of an outline on slides) called “A  CFTC Primer on Virtual Currencies” (the “Primer”).  Perhaps the most important statement in the… Read more »

Second Treasury Report on Changes to Dodd-Frank

In response to Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for Regulating the U.S. Financial System, February 3, 2017, the U.S. Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued its second report on October 6, 2017, entitled “A Financial System that Creates Economic Opportunities:  Capital Markets” (the “Report”). after the first report on banks and credit unions was released in… Read more »

Treasury Report on Changes to Dodd-Frank

In response to Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for Regulating the U.S. Financial System, February 3, 2017, the U.S. Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued its first report on June 12, 2017, entitled “A Financial System that Creates Economic Opportunities:  Banks and Credit Unions” (the “Report”) and a press release.  The lengthy Report recommends extensive changes… Read more »

SEC Report on Virtual Token Offerings and ICOs

On July 25, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) Division of Enforcement released a Report of Investigation (the “Report”) and a press release on the securities law analysis of an offer of DAO virtual tokens (“DAO Tokens”).  (Such an offer is sometimes called an Initial Coin Offering, or “ICO”.)  The Report may be the first of this type of report… Read more »