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New York Law Journal

Can the SEC Win the First-of-Its-Kind Crypto Insider Trading Case?

The biggest obstacle the Commission faces in proving insider trading is one of its own creation; its failure to provide the market with a clear picture of how the securities laws apply to digital assets will make it harder to prove that the tokens at issue qualify as "securities" under federal law.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

SEC Suit Hints at Case for Jurisdiction Over Ethereum Network

Over $40 billion is sitting in decentralized-finance applications on Ethereum, which lets users trade, lend and borrow coins, DeFi Llama data shows.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fed Set to Reveal 'Pain' Coming in Next Stage of Inflation Fight

Lingering inflation isn't the only data point leading to rising pessimism at the Federal Reserve. Record numbers of job postings are contributing as well.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Oil Drops as Looming Interest-Rate Rises Spur Growth Concerns

Concerns that a global slowdown will sap energy demand have put oil on track for its first quarterly decline in more than two years.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Business Class for $20K Means Staff Fly Coach or Not at All

As COVID restrictions eased around the world, airlines struggled to reactivate their fleets and bring back staff fast enough to cope with the growing appetite for air travel.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lithium Resumes Insane Gains to Add Pressure on Automakers

Global suppliers expect the lithium rally to continue, indicating raw materials will prove an enduring headache for the electric vehicle industry.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Warren Urges DOT to Block JetBlue's $3.8 Billion Spirit Deal

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren contends that the elimination of Spirit, a low-cost carrier, would likely lead to higher airline ticket prices, particularly in places where Spirit and JetBlue overlap.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fed Seen Raising to 4% in 2022, Signaling Higher for Longer

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been vague about how high interest rates might go and in July said the Fed would make policy "meeting by meeting."
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Hogan Lovells Flips Citi's Big Loss Over a Half a Billion Bucks in Mistakenly Wired Funds

In a case that had the financial services world abuzz, Hogan's Neal Katyal and Sean Marotta got a unanimous decision from the Second Circuit finding New York's "discharge for value" rule didn't allow the recipients of $500 million to keep the funds that Citibank mistakenly wired.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Anti-Money Laundering Chief Joins MoFo as Government Steps Up White-Collar Scrutiny

Deborah "Deb" Connor, most recently the chief of the money laundering and asset recovery section, is making the move to private practice after 25 years at the DOJ.
4 minute read

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