In the context of a search warrant in a criminal case, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States held that the virtual currency exchange Coinbase was like a “traditional bank.” The details of the case, U.S. v Gratkowski, Case No. 19-50492 (5th Cir. June 30, 2020), are as follows. Richard Gratkowski became the subject of a federal investigation when federal agents began investigating a child-pornography website. To download material from the website,…
Latest Posts
- Court Analogizes Coinbase To ‘Traditional Bank’ For Purposes of Fourth Amendment Privacy Protection
- DOJ and SEC Charge Lobbyist Jack Abramoff With Fraud Relating to Unregistered Offering
- SEC Obtains Restraining Order and Asset Freeze in Connection With Cryptocurrency Fraud
- European Bank Uses USDC Stablecoin for Cross-border Transfers
- French Regulator Delivers its Second VISA for an Initial Coin Offering
- Regulation of Crypto-assets, Intermediaries and ICOs in France
- SEC Freezes Assets of Company That Sold Interests in a Purported Cryptocurrency Mining Operation
- Company That Raised $25.5 Million In 32 Seconds Agrees to Return That Amount to Investors
Recent
On June 25, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged NAC Foundation, its Chief Executive Officer Marcus…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on June 19, 2020 that it had filed an emergency action…
Bank Frick, a Liechtenstein-based private bank, began offering cryptocurrency investment services to its existing customers in the first…
Last month, the French Financial Markets Regulator (AMF) delivered an ICO “VISA” to a company called WPO, which…
France has regulated Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and intermediaries providing crypto-asset services by virtue of its PACTE law…
On June 5, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unsealed a complaint it had filed on May…