The SEC’s ambiguous rule could have a chilling effect both on decentralized finance and on the provision of liquidity to centralized crypto exchanges. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

SEC defines the phrase “as part of a regular business” to capture private funds and other market participants that take on liquidity-providing roles. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

May 30 (Reuters) - For the second time this year, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has accepted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s expansive view of who must register as a securities ...

Hester Peirce, head of the SEC's crypto task force, said the context of a digital asset transfer could make it a securities transaction. What qualifies as a securities transaction depends more on the ...

NEW YORK – A judge’s questions offered hints of how she is looking at Coinbase’s legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during the first hearing in the case. In a ...

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule expanding the definition of a "dealer" to capture digital assets activity has gone too far, a lawsuit by the Blockchain Association and Crypto Freedom ...

Both Apple stock and the most complex financial instruments in the world fall under the same umbrella term — securities. The term is used in the finance sector to refer to many different financial ...

On Tuesday, the leading U.S. crypto exchange Bitcoin, which the agency has agreed should be treated as a commodity like gold or oil, the SEC has maintained that nearly every other digital asset is a ...