In a risk assessment report, the Treasury Department concluded that non-fungible tokens are rarely used for terrorist or proliferation financing, but have vulnerabilities that are exploited in fraud scams.
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A former investment adviser and its principal settled SEC charges for (i) disseminating false communications about the firm's holdings and exposures, (ii) failing to disclose a co-founder's conflicts of interest and (iii) related supervisory failures.
In the latest Investor Alert, the SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy described common tactics that fraudsters use to scam investors in crypto asset securities.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce recommended expanding the "Digital Securities Sandbox" proposed in a Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority consultation paper to include US domiciled firms and further cross border collaboration to facilitate innovation.
The MSRB updated a 2017 report on the timing of annual financial disclosure submissions by municipal securities issuers.