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Weekly Focus:

  • The OCC Announces New Acting Comptroller and Includes FinTech Charters Among Focuses
  • The OCC Requests Comments to Update Outdated Regulatory Requirements and New Digital Technology and Innovation
  • SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Nominated for Second Term
  • SEC Freezes Assets in a Multi-Level Marketing Cryptocurrency Scheme
  • Financial Services Committee Discusses Digital Dollar for Stimulus Payments
  • Russia Continues to Embrace Blockchain, Moscow Citizens to Cast Blockchain Secured E-Votes on Constitutional Amendments and Russian Supreme Court Uses Blockchain Technology to Vote for First Time
  • Ontario Securities Commission Blames Fraud Following Investigation of QuadrigaCX Downfall

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Continue Reading Blockchain Week in Review: Week of June 12, 2020

U.S. Developments

Regulatory Updates

Arca Investment Management Files With SEC to Issue Stablecoin

Arca Investment Management, a California-based investment management firm specializing in digital assets, filed an amended preliminary prospectus with the SEC seeking to make available its Arca UST Coins to investors. The Arca U.S. Treasury Fund (“Fund”) would issue its shares as “Arca UST Coins,” which are digitized securities that would be ERC-20 compatible tokens and utilize the Ethereum blockchain.

In compliance with the “Names Rule” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in U.S. Treasury Securities, which could include bills, bonds, and notes issued by the U.S. Treasury; the remaining assets would be held in cash, cash equivalents, or investment-grade bonds. The Fund is designed to function as a stablecoin, because it is structured to have little volatility between the “net asset value” per share and the coin’s value for purposes of trading in a secondary market. The Fund’s shares will be issued as a digitized security token, and all transactions, including issuance and transfer, will be recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, with ownership and transfer of the Arca UST Coin authenticated through cryptography. Arca Investment Management seeks to raise $25 million with its offering.
Continue Reading Blockchain Week in Review: Week of April 15-19, 2019