Worldwide: FinTech

On March 26, 2026, mortgage provider Better Home & Finance and cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase announced a partnership with Fannie Mae to offer Fannie Mae-complaint mortgages backed by cryptocurrency from borrowers as collateral.

February 2026 saw heightened federal and state enforcement across a broad range of cryptocurrency fraud schemes, with regulators imposing substantial prison terms and restitution orders. Federal authorities sentenced a Chinese national to nearly four years in prison for laundering $36.9 million from victims of Cambodia‑based investment scams, while a dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis received a 20‑year sentence in absentia for orchestrating a $73 million conspiracy that funneled vic

On March 31, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it is amending Appendix E of 12 CFR 30 by rescinding "OCC Guidelines Establishing Standards for Recovery Planning by Certain Large Insured National Banks, Insured Federal Savings Associations, and Insured Federal Branches" effective May 1. In addition, the OCC immediately rescinded Bulletins 2025-35, 2024-31, 2024-16, and 2018-47 relating to recovery planning.

After years of uncertainty and restraint on the growth of digital assets in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...

We expect financial institutions will continue to navigate a fractured regulatory landscape.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

The interpretive guidance marks the first effort by the SEC (as opposed to prior staff interpretations that were not statements of the Commission itself) to define the types of crypto assets that are securities and those that are not.

On March 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") issued an interpretation — not a binding regulation — addressing how the federal securities laws apply...

In this client alert, Lewis Rinaudo Cohen, Samson Enzer, Gregory Strong, Gary Kalbaugh, Brian Farber, and Edward Leaf examine the SEC's key positions in an interpretive release titled...