Gary Gensler is a US public servant and financial regulator who now serves as the Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). With his recent regulatory measures, Gensler has often come unde...
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Gensler Should Be Recused From Enforcement Actions Claiming Tokens Are Securities
Gensler’s maintained view that all cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin are securities continues to spark reactions. Ripple General Counsel Stuart Alderoty has asserted that United States Securities and Ex...
SEC Chairman Explains Why He Views All Crypto Tokens Other Than Bitcoin as Securities – Regulation Bitcoin News
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has detailed why he considers all crypto tokens other than bitcoin as securities. While acknowledging that crypto tokens may have di...
How investors can learn to live with inflation: BlackRock
Growth stocks may have led the early 2023 rally, but stubbornly high inflation means that won’t last. That’s the main message from the BlackRock Investment Institute on Monday, as U.S. stocks attempte...
Gary Gensler vs crypto lawyers – a tough state of securities affair – Cryptopolitan
The man goes by Gary Gensler, and the crypto community is not happy. Gary Gensler’s latest interview with New York Mag (NYMAG) has once again ruffled feathers in the crypto industry. In an interview ...
How can I save my long-term care insurance after a premium hike?
I am 78 years old and have been a long-term care policyholder for approximately 20 years. My premiums started around $1,500 per year. The annual rate was scheduled to increase every five years. By the...
XRP Pro Lawyer Disagrees With Saylor That All Crypto Assets Other Than Bitcoin Are Securities
Attorney Deaton says Saylor’s claim is mistaken. Pro-XRP attorney John Deaton has rebuffed comments made by MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor, claiming that crypto assets other than Bitcoin are ...
Lawyers criticize Gensler’s assertion that all cryptos are securities
In recent times, digital currency lawyers have strongly criticized Gary Gensler, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) head, for his recent comments that all cryptocurrencies, exc...
Crypto Crash Looming? SEC Might Label All Cryptocurrencies Except Bitcoin as Securities
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its altcoin crackdown, with Bitcoin narrowly escaping the regulator. The SEC Chair Gary Gensler has time and again argued tha...
Crypto lawyers flame Gensler over claims that all crypto are securities
Cryptocurrency lawyers have rebuffed comments made by the head of the United States securities regulator, claiming in a recent interview that every cryptocurrency except Bitcoin (BTC) is a security th...
Pro-Ripple Lawyer Makes Stronger Case Why XRP and Several Tokens Are Not Securities
CryptoLaw founder John E. Deaton is making a stronger case as to why crypto tokens should not be labeled securities. The attorney for XRP holders was responding to a Twitter user who claimed that almo...
Canada’s Largest Pension Sold Apple, Bought EV Stocks Tesla, NIO, Li Auto
Canada’s largest public pension seems to be more bullish about electric vehicles than iPhones. Canada Pension Plan sold 85% of its Apple stock (ticker: AAPL), and scooped up shares of Tesla (TSLA), an...
This little-known indicator with an excellent record is projecting below-average long-term returns
Small- and midcap stocks will be below-average performers over the next five years. That’s a discouraging prospect, since these sectors have already suffered more than the broad market. The Russell 20...
Global financial markets have had a rough time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it is not over yet
A year after Russia invaded Ukraine and set off the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, global financial markets seem to no longer carry on the lasting shocks on a daily basis, but the fu...
Moving in Retirement to Cut Tax Costs? Consider These 4 Factors First.
When an affluent suburban Chicago couple came to John Campbell, senior wealth strategist at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management, planning to retire in New Mexico because of its weather and lower incom...
Thomas H. Lee, Leveraged-Buyout Pioneer, Dies of Apparent Suicide
Private-equity pioneer Thomas H. Lee died unexpectedly at 78, his colleagues and family said late Thursday. New York Police Department officials said first responders to an emergency call Thursday mor...
Blockchain Association Rejects Court’s Securities Ruling on Private Blockchains
Following the decision of a federal judge to allow a lawsuit against Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to go forward, the chief legal officer of the Blockchain Association stat...
Binance.US Could Be in Violation of Securities Law
Binance.plan US’s to buy over one billion dollars’ worth of assets that had belonged to the bankrupt cryptocurrency lending company Voyager Digital has been met with opposition from the Un...
I’m retiring, what do I do with my 401(k)? You have 4 choices, but only 3 are good.
You have to make a lot of decisions when you retire, and among the biggest is what to do with your workplace retirement savings. No matter how much money you have or how you intend to invest it, you h...
I’m 73 and will only have my 401(k) after retiring. How do I make it last?
I am 73 years old and still employed full time. I will receive no retirement benefits when I leave my job except for a 401(k). My question is: what is the best way to handle this 401(k) without losing...
The Only 401(k) Savers Who Didn’t Lose Money in The Past Year
The only workers whose 401(k) balances grew in 2022 were the Gen Z savers still decades away from retirement, according to new data from Fidelity Investments. While the average nest egg among Fidelit...
Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.
Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...
NBA Top Shot NFTs Are ‘Plausibly’ Securities, Judge Rules in Dapper Labs Lawsuit
Are NBA Top Shot NFT moments unregistered securities? That’s what a lawsuit filed against Top Shot creator Dapper Labs in 2021 alleges—and the judge apparently agrees. United States District Court Jud...
We’re in our 60s and have lost $250,000 in our 401(k) plans — can we still retire?
I am a 61-year-old female who has worked for the same financial institution since the age of 16. I will have 50 years at the company if I retire at 66. I’ve lost over $150,000 in my 401(k) this past y...
NBA Top Shot NFTs could be unregistered securities, judge says
A New York judge has ruled that a proposed class-action lawsuit against Dapper Labs and its Top Shot Moments NFT collection can move forward because the offering could have been an unregistered securi...
SEC Objects to Binance.US’ $1B Voyager Deal, Alleging Sale of Unregistered Securities
Voyager “onboarded New York customers and thus illegally operated a virtual currency business within the state without a license, in violation of New York laws and regulations,” depriving its customer...
NY Attorney General Sues CoinEx for Selling Securities Without a License
The SEC and other U.S. regulators have, in recent weeks, turned on the heat in regard to crypto exchanges – an understandable, if a somewhat brusque, response to the series of crypto bankruptcies acro...
Labeling Private NFTs As Securities Is Unreasonable, Says Lawyer
The ongoing dispute over Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shots NFTs status has sparked comments from lawyers and observers. The case started with a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Jeeun Friel in May 2021...
Bed Bath & Beyond stock falls again, has plunged more than 70% during a 12-day stretch in which it has declined 11 times
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -7.12% took a 6.8% beating Thursday, which put them on track for a third-straight loss and a seven-week closing low. The stock has shed 16.6% over the past t...
NBA-Branded ‘Top Shot Moments’ NFTs May Be Securities, Judge Rules in Dapper Labs Case
“Rather, it is the particular scheme by which Dapper Labs offers Moments that creates the sufficient legal relationship between investor and promoter to establish an investment contract, and thus a se...
Opinion: Ford’s pact with Chinese EV battery maker is a sucker punch to American taxpayers
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin made national headlines recently when he rejected a Ford Motor F, +1.30% factory in a struggling part of the state, owning to Ford’s partnership with Contemporary Ampe...