The CSBS is suing the OCC to stop the new special purpose national bank charter for fintech firms.
In a press release, CSBS (the Conference of State Bank Supervisors) makes some alarming claims, suggesting the OCC is doomed to fall asleep at the switch, allow firms to fail,...
Overzealous AML enforcement doesn’t just harm innovation, it can also be deadly.
That’s what the conclusion of new research reported in the Washington Post today showing that the same kind of bank “derisking” that affects the deposits, wire transfers, and access to...
In a letter to congress, their industry group, Financial Innovation Now, explained how state-by-state money transmission licensing is a major impediment to innovation in financial services here in the US: Payment...
California is back at it; a new (old) virtual currency licensing bill is pending in the Assembly.
We believe that the ULC’s model Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act will offer a better way.
The new bill is AB 1123. Over the last two years we’ve been discussing and studying an earlier bill, AB 1326, extensively. That bill went through several iterations: one that...
Bitcoin taxation is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
An exemption for small gains would take most of the headache out of using digital currencies like Bitcoin.
We recently described what a bill creating a federal safe harbor for non-custodial uses of cryptocurrency should look like, and we’re now advocating for just such a bill in Congress....
The Communications Decency Act, which protected the internet's early innovators, is a perfect model for protecting the people and companies building it's next level infrastructure.
As we wrote last January, We got lucky with the Internet. The net we’ve come to know, love, and rely upon owes much of its existence to two laws passed...
Here’s how the tax treatment of Bitcoin is broken.
I couldn’t have put it more succinctly than this piece in the Wall Street Journal today: One complication is that the IRS treats bitcoin as property, rather than currency. The...
The OCC has just taken another step toward a national fintech charter.
Today it released a draft of the licensing manual supplement that will be used by fintech companies digital currency and blockchain companies among them to understand and engage in the...
The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF has been rejected by the SEC.
The first of several attempts to create an exchange traded fund based on cryptocurrency tokens has failed in its bid for regulatory approval. Coin Center executive director Jerry Brito had...
This updated framework gives regulators the tools they need to develop sound policy around open blockchain networks like Bitcoin.
Last weekend I attended what will probably be the final meeting of the Uniform Law Commission’s drafting committee for a model Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act (the RVCBA!). The...