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Derivatives in Review

Italian Court Orders Disclosure of Swap Settlement

October.16.2011

In a ruling published on September 26th, an Italian court ordered the disclosure of the terms of a settlement between the city of Cassino and J.P. ...

Derivatives in Review

Federal Reserve Bank Publishes Report on CDS Market

October.16.2011

On September 27th, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a staff report, titled An Analysis of CDS Transactions: Implicationsfor Public ...

Derivatives in Review

DoddFrank Implementation Update

May.15.2011

Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act,[1] titled the “Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010” (the “Act”), was enacted on July 21, 2010. ...

Derivatives in Review

DoddFrank Act Implementation Update

October.16.2011

Title VII of the Dodd-Frank financial reform, titled the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), was enacted ...

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IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Addressing CDS and Section 1256 Swap Exclusion

October.16.2011

On September 15th, the U.S. Treasury Department issued proposed regulations that would add credit default swaps and non-financial index derivatives ...

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FinCEN Sends Message to the Virtual Currency Industry: The Travel Rule Applies to You, Too

June.02.2020

FinCEN Director Ken Blanco addressed this year’s Consensus Blockchain Conference on May 13, 2020. In a set of prepared remarks, Blanco recognized the ...

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Three IP Issues to Watch Out for When It Comes to NFTs

by Caroline Simons, Sheryl Koval Garko and Mark S. Puzella
April.15.2021

Seemingly overnight, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded onto the market and into the public consciousness. The eye-popping prices that some ...

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Orrick Hosts Fireside Chat with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

March.11.2020

On March 2, Orrick had the pleasure of hosting SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce for a fireside chat discussion at our San Francisco office on the state ...

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SEC Provides Expectations About Public Company Disclosures Regarding Crypto Ecosystem Impact

by Alice Hsu, Daniel Forester, Joseph Perkins and Soo Hwang
January.27.2023

What Happened The Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a sample letter on December 8, 2022, ...

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Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust: SEC Staff Provides Its “Plain English” Framework to Guide Future Discussions

April.05.2019

The SEC chose a week that saw the price of Bitcoin spike by over $700 in an hour, kicking off a rally reminiscent of the go-go days of 2017, to issue ...

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Still Waiting: SEC Again Delays Approvals of Bitcoin ETFs

August.19.2019

As further evidence of the SEC’s resistance to the development of a regulated secondary market in bitcoin, on August 12 it delayed making a decision ...

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FinCEN Shows a Little Bite to Go with Its Bark

April.25.2019

Last week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) backed up its strong public statements about enforcing the anti-money laundering (AML) ...