Perkins Coie LLP, and Flourish, a platform which provides innovative access to financial products that help Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) secure their clients’ financial futures, announce the release of a white paper that highlights key regulatory and compliance considerations for RIAs looking to engage with cryptocurrencies.
Flourish engaged Perkins Coie to author a
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Todd Zerega and Andrew Cross discuss the
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently released a Digital Assets Primer that provides updated information to the public about emerging concepts in digital assets. The primer is part of a series issued by the CFTC’s innovation office, LabCFTC, and is the second to delve into issues surrounding digital assets.
The Digital Assets Primer is
Part 3: An Overview of the Guidance
In the final part of our three-part update series covering the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) guidance on what constitutes the “actual delivery” of a digital asset in the context of a retail commodity transaction, we offer a detailed overview of the Guidance with our analysis.
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Part 2: CFTC Finalizes Guidance on Digital Assets in the Context of Retail Commodity Transactions
This is the second part of a three-part update series in order to provide the industry with a critical analysis of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalized long-awaited interpretive guidance regarding what constitutes the “actual delivery” of a
Part 1: Commentary on the Significance of the Guidance for the Industry
On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalized long-awaited interpretive guidance regarding what constitutes the “actual delivery” of a digital asset in the context of a retail commodity transaction under the Commodity Exchange Act.
This interpretive guidance is noteworthy
This post originally appeared in The Derivatives and Repo Report, and can be accessed here.:
This post is the second in a series that outlines key considerations for investment funds and their advisers regarding the application of the U.S. commodity laws to cryptocurrency derivatives. In Part 1, we focused on the status
This post originally appeared in The Derivatives and Repo Report, and can be accessed here.:
In this multi-part posting, we outline key considerations for investment funds and their advisers regarding the application of the U.S commodity laws to cryptocurrency derivatives. Part 1 focuses on the status of cryptocurrencies as commodities and how that
Just like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is actively policing the virtual currency market. On January 24, 2018, the CFTC announced an enforcement action against two individuals and a company, My Big Coin Pay, Inc., for fraudulently offering the sale of a “fully functioning” virtual currency. Press Release, CFTC Charges Randall Crater, Mark Gillespie, and My Big Coin Pay, Inc. with Fraud and Misappropriation in Ongoing Virtual Currency Scam (Jan. 24, 2018), http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7678-18.
Continue Reading CFTC Flexes Its Regulatory Muscle in a Case Involving a Virtual Currency
On December 15, 2017, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) issued a proposed interpretation of the term “actual delivery” as used in the provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (the “CEA”) that grants the CFTC explicit authority to oversee the marketplace for “retail commodity transactions.” This is the second blog posting in a