10/19/2026 5:03:52 PM Turning Straw Into Gold: BOLI Exchanges and the Open Insurable Interest Question By Henry Bregstein In July, we wrote about the final regulations under T.D. 10052, which confirm that a Section 1035 exchange is no longer, by itself, a...
10/19/2026 1:53:57 PM Rethinking the 'Qualified Client' Standard By Michael Didiuk Adam Bolter Alex San Martin The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed treating “accredited investors” under Regulation D as “qualified clients” under...
10/15/2026 9:37:02 PM SEC Approval Opens the Door to Event-Based Trading in the Securities Markets By Dan Davis Matt Kluchenek James Brady Alex Kim Alex San Martin +2 more... Show less Prediction-market-style trading is entering the securities markets. On October 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved...
10/12/2026 4:51:43 PM FCA Finalises Guidance on the Prudential Overall Risk Assessment for Cryptoasset Firms By Christopher Collins Charlotte Hill Carolyn Jackson Nathaniel Lalone Sara Portillo Neil Robson Ciara Watson James Wells +5 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published two sets of finalised non-Handbook guidance on COREPRU 7 (FG26/9) and CRYPTOPRU 7...
10/6/2026 8:44:22 PM The CFTC Sets its Sights on Retail Leveraged Crypto Transactions By Dan Davis Matt Kluchenek Alex Kim Alex San Martin +1 more... Show less The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken another significant step towards developing a broader federal regulatory...
10/1/2026 1:20:49 PM UK Regulators Publish Tokenisation Feedback Statement and Call for Input By Nathaniel Lalone Carolyn Jackson Neil Robson Charlotte Hill Christopher Collins Ciara Watson Sara Portillo +4 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) (together, the Regulators) have published a joint Feedback...
9/23/2026 10:13:32 PM Don’t Mention It… The CFTC Places New Guardrails on Mention Markets By Dan Davis Alex Kim Alex San Martin Prediction markets have steadily expanded the universe of event contracts in which market participants can take positions, the newest...
9/22/2026 3:08:23 PM The AI Apocalypse: ‘I’m Sorry, Dave. I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That’ By Henry Bregstein Dave Bowman won. It is worth remembering, amid the current genre of reporting in which artificial intelligence (AI) is revealed to be...
9/18/2026 2:23:12 PM FCA Finalises Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance Ahead of the New UK Regime By Carolyn Jackson Charlotte Hill Christopher Collins Nathaniel Lalone Neil Robson Ciara Watson Sara Portillo James Wells +5 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a policy statement (PS26/18) on the finalised perimeter guidance for the UK’s new...
9/8/2026 4:24:41 PM WSJ PPLI Commentary — The Journal Got a Few Things Right By Henry Bregstein This week's Wall Street Journal piece on private placement life insurance, "'A Roth IRA on Steroids': Wealthy Americans Find Another...
8/31/2026 2:50:54 PM The ID-SMA Is No Longer a Concept — It Is a Robust Structure By Henry Bregstein For a few years, the insurance-dedicated separately managed account (ID-SMA) was a structure that many advisors had heard about but few...
8/28/2026 10:55:34 PM Sports Bets or Swaps? Ninth Circuit’s Controversial Kalshi Ruling Deepens the Divide By Alex Kim Alex San Martin Does federal derivatives law preempt state gaming regulations when a prediction market lists sports-related contracts as swaps? In...
8/21/2026 10:04:01 PM The SEC’s Long-Awaited Crypto Proposal By Dan Davis Michael Didiuk Matt Kluchenek Sam Bevenour Alex Kim Alex San Martin +3 more... Show less A tailored securities offering regime for crypto assets After years of applying decades-old securities rules to digital assets, the...
8/17/2026 6:14:01 PM The Sunset Is Gone. Income Tax Remains: The PPLI – PPVA Solution. By Henry Bregstein For the better part of a decade, every estate planning conversation my colleagues had with a high-net-worth family started with the same...
8/5/2026 11:36:30 AM FCA Finalises Overhaul of UK Transaction Reporting By Christopher Collins Carolyn Jackson Nathaniel Lalone Neil Robson Ciara Watson Eleanor Bines +3 more... Show less On 3 August 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement PS26/15, setting out final transaction reporting rules...
8/3/2026 10:21:47 AM ESMA Publishes Preliminary Findings on the Active Account Requirement By Christopher Collins Carolyn Jackson Nathaniel Lalone Neil Robson Ciara Watson Eleanor Bines +3 more... Show less Introduction On 6 July 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published two important documents on recent...