7/25/2025 9:47:04 PM White House Reveals AI Action Plan By Trisha Sircar Alex Kim On July 23, 2025, the White House released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January...
7/18/2025 7:40:20 PM GENIUS Act Update: Historic Stablecoin Legislation Heads to President’s Desk By Dan Davis Michael Didiuk Christina Grigorian Alex Kim +1 more... Show less After the Senate passed the GENIUS Act last month, the House of Representatives has now passed the GENIUS Act by a vote of 308-122,...
7/7/2025 12:53:33 AM President Trump Issues Executive Order Lifting Longstanding Sanctions on Syria By Jacques Semmelman On June 30, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14312 (“E.O. 14312” or the “E.O.”) titled “Providing for the Revocation of Syria...
6/20/2025 2:57:52 PM Senate Passes GENIUS Act: Landmark Federal Stablecoin Bill Advances to House By Dan Davis Christina Grigorian Alex Kim Michael Didiuk +1 more... Show less The US Senate has passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) by a vote of 68-30, a...
4/14/2025 5:01:24 PM SEC Issues Crypto Securities Disclosure Statement as IRS DeFi Broker Rule Repealed By Dan Davis Alex Kim The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued a new statement about SEC staff’s experience with SEC...
3/7/2025 6:48:52 PM Executive Order Establishes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile By Dan Davis Alex Kim Bitcoin and other digital assets now have a welcome home in the United States government. On March 6, President Trump signed an executive...
2/24/2025 4:42:42 PM President Trump Executive Order on Supervision of 'Independent' Agencies By Dan Davis Carl Kennedy Nicholas Gervasi Amidst a blitz of executive action, on February 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Ensuring Accountability...
2/18/2025 8:12:54 PM President Trump’s Recent Executive Orders and Their Potential Impact on Social Initiatives By Ny'esha Young Johnjerica Hodge President Trump started his second term by signing executive orders that covered a number of environmental, social, and governance...
2/13/2025 5:07:06 PM SEC Grants Further Relief From Including Personally Identifiable Information in CAT Reporting By James Brady Michael Lohnes Wayne Aaron Susan Light +1 more... Show less On February 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted relief exempting industry members from reporting a natural person’s...
2/12/2025 5:58:06 PM CFPB Shaken Up While Courts Address Consumer Fraud Obligations Under EFTA and Convenience Fees By Stuart Richter Eric Hail Ted Huffman Camille Brooks +1 more... Show less The new administration continues to shake up the financial services regulatory environment. The CFPB’s new acting director indicated...
2/11/2025 7:23:47 PM President Trump Pauses FCPA Enforcement By Jacques Semmelman On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to...
1/24/2025 2:48:51 PM White House Embraces Crypto as SEC Opens Door for Banks By Dan Davis Alex Kim The Trump administration is moving swiftly to reshape federal digital asset policy. On January 23, President Trump issued an executive...
1/16/2025 9:49:04 PM What Will the New FTC Do With the Green Guides? By Chris Cole The incoming administration will change the Federal Trade Commission leadership. Chair Lina Khan, whose term has expired, is leaving,...
12/16/2024 2:49:53 PM President-Elect Trump Taps Andrew Ferguson to Serve as FTC Chair and Nominates Mark Meador as Commissioner By Trisha Sircar On December 10, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that FTC commissioner Andrew Ferguson will chair the agency, while...
12/9/2024 2:04:28 PM 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: Legislative Proposals By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Andrew Toporoff President-Elect Donald Trump has not published a comprehensive tax plan as of the time of this writing, but he and Vice President-Elect...
11/21/2024 7:59:27 PM US Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Dealer Rule By James Brady Wayne Aaron Susan Light Earlier today, the US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas vacated the rule recently adopted by the Securities and Exchange...