In a statement entitled “The Journey Begins,” on February 4, 2025, US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) Commissioner Hester Peirce provided new details regarding her thoughts on the agency’s evolving position on crypto. Commissioner Peirce is leading the SEC’s new Crypto Task Force (the “Task Force”), which she described as “want[ing] to
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This week’s podcast episode: Regulating Bank Reputation Risk
Today’s podcast show features a discussion with Julie Andersen Hill about her law review article titled “Regulating Bank Reputation Risk”, 54 GA. L. Rev. 523 (2023). Professor Hill is the Dean and Wyoming Excellence Chair of the University of Wyoming College of Law.
The abstract to Professor Hill’s article does an excellent job…
Is Pareto Optimality The Answer For Controlling Stockholder Transactions?
Yesterday’s post concerned the Delaware Supreme Court’s decision that the business judgment rule applied to TripAdvisor’s decision to reincorporate in Nevada. Maffei v. Palkon, 2025 WL 384054 (Del. Feb. 4, 2025). This holding reversed Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster’s earlier ruling that the entire fairness doctrine applied because the reincorporation involved a non ratable benefit…
Chaos Kills Coordination
Policy chaos doesn’t just make headlines; it fundamentally disrupts economic calculation and prosperity. Like a stone thrown into still water, chaos ripples through the economy in ways that are hard to see but that can be profoundly destructive to prosperity and growth.
Its effects also ripple outward: freezing investment, distorting prices, and disrupting the calculations…
Parsing Brazil’s ‘More Flexible’ Approach to Digital Markets
Following an extensive consultation period, Brazil’s Ministério da Fazenda (Ministry of Finance) last October unveiled its final digital-platform report. Given the public stances previously taken by Brazil’s would-be digital regulators—the antitrust agency Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) and the telecommunications regulator Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel)—it was likely inevitable that the report would…
2024 Payments Year in Review: CFPB and FTC Regulatory Trends – Part Two
In the second installment of a four-part Payments Year in Review series, Keith Barnett and Josh McBeain discuss significant developments in the payments landscape from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2024 and expectations for 2025.…
Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill completed House of Lords committee stage
On 4 February 2025, the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill completed the House of Lords Committee stage.
The purpose of the Bill is to make provision about the types of things that are capable of being objects of personal property rights, as is further explained in our previous blog regarding the original publication of the…
Seyfarth Achieves Top Honors in WIPR’s 2024 National Patents and Trademarks Rankings
FDIC Acting Chairman Charts a Fresh Path Forward for the Agency
The DMA’s Challenge to User Safety: Lessons from Apple’s Porn App Controversy
A recent controversy over pornographic apps being downloaded to iPhones in the European Union illustrates a fundamental tension in the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA): the conflict between mandated openness and established user-safety expectations.
While the DMA aims to promote competition and user choice, the recent case of the pornographic-video app Hot Tub, distributed to…