Posts Categorized: Commodities

N.Y. Attorney General Alleges Unregistered Dealers Selling Crypto Securities and Commodities

In a letter to five trading platforms, N.Y. Attoney General Letitia James notified them that certain crypto-assets are securities under the N.Y. law – the Martin Act – that requires sellers of securities within or from the state to register with the state. They are securities because they “promise a rate of return to investors,… Read more »

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 »

CFTC, FinCen and SEC Joint “Reminder” to Cryptocurrency World of AML Requirements

On October 11, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCen”) of the U.S. Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a joint statement reminding “persons engaged in activities involving digital assets of  their anti-money laundering and countering of financing of terrorism (“AML/CFT”) obligations under the… Read more »

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 »