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A Market with 'Zero Regulation': Experts Disagree on Regulator Role in Cryptocurrency

Some view the regulatory environment around cryptocurrency as burdensome, others nonexistent.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

Delay. Delay. Delay. How Trump's Agencies Want to Kill Rules

Chopping down Washington's "dense thicket of rules, regulations and red tape," as President Donald Trump described it in June, doesn't always come so easily—or quickly. For a number of other regulations, the Trump administration has been playing the delay game.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

SEC Whistleblowers in Line for Windfall, and FTC Probes Amazon: Roundup

The Trump administration is touting the number of federal regulations that are on the chopping block. Exxon Mobil Corp.'s suing the U.S. Treasury Department over a $2 million fine for violating Russia sanctions. The Federal Trade Commission's looking at Amazon.com's discounting practices. And financial regulators appear to be pulling back on a plan to restrict Wall Street bonuses. This is a weekly roundup from ALM and around the web.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Goldman Partners Mark Era's End as Stock Holding Dips Below 5 Percent

In a symbol of how much Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has changed from its days as a true partnership, the company disclosed that the combined ownership of its so-called partners has dropped below 5 percent.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Linklaters Associate Denies Wrongdoing in Insider Trading Case

A pristine start to a Big Law career has been derailed for a former editor-in-chief of Harvard Law School's International Law Review who joined Linklaters in 2015.
18 minute read

New York Law Journal

Happy Anniversary, Dodd-Frank

Jordan A. Thomas writes: We don't say this often, and we haven't heard it lately, but with the SEC Whistleblower Program, the United States government got it right. Really right.
12 minute read

The Recorder

UC Law Schools Win Bid to Intervene in Case Awarding $45M for Botched Mortgage

A bankruptcy judge has ruled that the institutions have standing in a lawsuit resulting in a large punitive damages award.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Sledziona

Banking Law §675 Presumption Inapplicable; Judgment to Decedent's Brother Denied
2 minute read

The Recorder

Berkeley Law Grad Convicted of Multimillion-Dollar Fraud in Miami

The former Wall Street hedge fund employee stole his ex-coworkers' identities to get fraudulent loans, according to prosecutors.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Berkeley Law Grad Convicted of Multimillion-Dollar Fraud in Miami

The former Wall Street hedge fund employee stole his ex-coworkers' identities to get fraudulent loans, according to prosecutors.
4 minute read

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