Monthly Archives: October 2020

UK FCA Bans Retail Sale of Cryptoderivatives

On the grounds that among others they cannot be reliably valued, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) has banned the sale, distribution and marketing to retail customers of derivatives and exchange traded notes based on unregulated cryptoassets as of January 6, 2021.  The FCA has said that this does not include security tokens as… Read more »

SEC Proposes New Rules on “Finders”

On October 7, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules to exempt for the first time “finders” from the need to register as broker-dealers. For a number of years, attorneys have advised that issuers could use “finders” not registered as broker-dealers to find potential investors on capital raises if the finders kept their activities very… Read more »