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  • “Stable” Coins Or Risky Business? SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw

    Date 04/04/2025

    The Division of Corporation Finance issued another installment today in its ongoing statement series dedicated to jurisdictional carve-outs for crypto.  This one opines that certain so-called “stablecoins” are not securities.  What’s remarkable about this statement is not so much its ultimate conclusion, but the analysis staff relies on to get there.  The statement’s legal and factual errors paint a distorted picture of the USD-stablecoin market that drastically understates its risks.

  • CFTC Staff Issues No-Action Letter Regarding Pre-Trade Mid-Market Mark

    Date 04/04/2025

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division today issued a no-action letter in relation to the Pre-Trade Mid-Market Mark (PTMMM) requirement in Regulation 23.431 for swap dealers and major swap participants.   

  • Wall Street Tumbles: Trade War Fears Wipe Out USD4.9 Trillion In Global Markets

    Date 04/04/2025

    Wall Street has closed after a second consecutive day of steep losses, driven by escalating tensions over Donald Trump's tariffs. China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods have heightened fears of a global trade war, stoking concerns of an impending recession.

  • CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

    Date 04/04/2025

    The current reports for the week of April 1, 2025 are now available. Report data is also available in the CFTC Public Reporting Environment (PRE), which allows users to search, filter, customize and download report data.

  • Statement On Stablecoins: SEC Division Of Corporation Finance

    Date 04/04/2025

    Introduction

    As part of an effort to provide greater clarity on the application of the federal securities laws to crypto assets,[1] the Division of Corporation Finance is providing its views[2] on certain types of crypto assets commonly referred to as “stablecoins.” Specifically, this statement addresses stablecoins that are designed to maintain a stable value relative to the United States Dollar, or “USD,” on a one-for-one basis, can be redeemed for USD on a one-for-one basis (i.e., one stablecoin to one USD), and are backed by assets held in a reserve that are considered low-risk and readily liquid with a USD-value that meets or exceeds the redemption value of the stablecoins in circulation. As discussed below, we refer to the types of stablecoins addressed by this statement as “Covered Stablecoins.”