Nov 30, 2021 Hospital Pricing Transparency Likely to Lead to Only More Scrutiny By Ryan Meyer As more studies continue to emerge regarding the sometimes significant pricing disparities between hospitals for ostensibly similar...
Nov 25, 2021 What Does the SEC's & CFTC's Handling of Kospi 200 Stock Index Futures and Crypto Have in Common? Nothing Today -- But The Approach Should be Similar! By Gary DeWaal On November 23, 2021, the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted "no action" relief to the...
Nov 16, 2021 Just Say No: The SEC Again Rejects an Application for the Listing and Trading of Shares of a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund By Gary DeWaal Dan Davis The Securities and Exchange Commission again rejected an exchange’s application to list and trade shares of a bitcoin ETF on November 12,...
Nov 11, 2021 Another DeFi Yellow Flag Thrown By an SEC Commissioner By Alex Kim The decentralized finance (DeFi) community must address issues of "transparency" and "pseudonymity" before it can deliver on its "new and...
Nov 09, 2021 To Paraphrase Gertrude Stein, A Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Is a Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Is a Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Even If Issued As an NFT By Gary DeWaal Unique digital assets that are intended and used as collectibles and not as payment or investment instruments -- digital collectible...
Nov 08, 2021 If It Quacks Like a Duck... SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Invokes the "Spirit of the Law" as DeFi Takes Center Stage By Alex Kim SEC Chairman Gary Gensler vowed on November 4, 2021, that the SEC will look beyond the label of decentralized finance (DeFi) or...
Nov 04, 2021 Laura Keidan Martin Speaking At The IAHA 39th Annual Health Law Symposium By Laura Keidan Martin Katten Events Health Care partner Laura Keidan Martin will moderate "A Conversation with CMS: Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral...
Nov 04, 2021 Connecticut Jury Finds Four Crypto Mining-Linked Products are Not Securities By Sheehan Band On November 1, 2021, a jury decided that certain crypto mining-linked products were not securities. The case is Audet et al. v. Garza et...
Nov 01, 2021 President's Working Group Report Attacks Stablecoins As Well As CeFi Platforms and DeFi Protocols By Gary DeWaal In as much an attack on centralized crypto asset trading ("CeFI") platforms and decentralized finance ("DeFi") protocols as stablecoins,...
Nov 01, 2021 Material Influencers or Controllers of DeFi Applications May Be Subject to Obligations of a Virtual Asset Service Provider Says the FATF By Gary DeWaal Persons with "sufficient influence or control" over a DeFi application potentially should be responsible for the anti-money laundering...