/capitalmarkets?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Capital Markets Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:50:03 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327699 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. moved Friday to spare large banks from certain requirements for what should go into the next version of their so-called living wills, saying it wants to put more emphasis on planning for quicker, potentially weekend sales of failing banks. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:22:02 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327624?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327624 A Manhattan federal judge trimmed a $47 million lawsuit from the bankrupt retailer once known as Bed Bath & Beyond accusing GameStop's CEO of insider trading before the housewares giant went belly-up, but says "ample" public information would have told the businessman he had enough stock to be a corporate insider. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:46:20 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327476?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327476 The chair of a China-focused U.S. House committee has urged Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase & Co. not to underwrite a Hong Kong initial public offering of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. over concerns the Chinese electric car battery maker is affiliated with the Chinese military. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:59:56 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327622?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327622 Oregon's attorney general on Friday sued crypto exchange Coinbase and called on states to fill the "enforcement vacuum left by federal regulators" like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which have dropped cases under the Trump administration. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:43:27 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327433?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327433 Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky urged a New York federal judge Thursday to reject the probation office's recommended 15-year prison sentence for lying that the fallen $25 billion crypto-lender's tokens were safe, arguing he's always had "genuinely good intentions" and should serve at most one year plus a day behind bars. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:55:22 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327536 Divisions of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have offered details on their materiality standards for assessing supervision and noncompliance issues, following February guidance on how much money regulated entities can expect to save for cooperating with agency investigations. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:33 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327613 After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:47:18 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2326388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2326388 Multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves between a rock and a hard place attempting to comply with EU and California ESG requirements while not running afoul of expanding U.S. anti-ESG regimes, but focusing on what is material to shareholder value and establishing strong governance can help, say attorneys at MoFo. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:25:56 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327453?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327453 A former general counsel for a Webster Bank predecessor should serve between 51 and 71 months behind bars and pay full restitution after admitting he spent eight years embezzling $7.4 million, federal prosecutors argue. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:34:09 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2325931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2325931 Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:33:46 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327348?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327348 Miles & Stockbridge has hired an attorney who represents commercial lenders and banks in a range of financial matters, and who joins the firm after nearly 30 years at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:33:31 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327478 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Global Payments Inc. buys Worldpay from GTCR and FIS, Intel Corp. sells a stake in its Altera business to Silver Lake, KKR acquires OSTTRA from S&P Global and CME Group, and Canada's Capital Power Corp. nabs two U.S. natural gas power plants. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:30:15 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2325879?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2325879 The newly formed Texas Stock Exchange LLC is proposing rules that largely resemble those of the New York heavyweights it seeks to challenge, along with some notable differences, leaving questions on how the exchange will distinguish itself. Here are five takeaways from TXSE's securities filing. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:45:19 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2326543?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2326543 Ropes & Gray LLP partner Matt Posthuma has jumped ship to DLA Piper, where he joins the firm's investment funds practice as a partner in its Chicago office. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:27:18 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327495?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327495 Capital One on Friday received the last regulatory sign-offs needed for its $35 billion purchase of Discover, putting the megadeal on track to close for the former while also clearing the decks of a more than $1 billion enforcement matter for the latter. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:15:52 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327339?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327339 Prosecutors told a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday that they plan to proceed with an investor fraud case against the CEO of crypto firm SafeMoon, having reviewed a Justice Department directive not to pursue certain charges related to digital assets. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:06:11 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2321534?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2321534 The Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s recent commitment to stop examining banks for reputation risk could help defendants in enforcement actions challenge unfavorable assessments and support defendants' arguments for lower civil money penalties, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:24:25 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327232?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327232 A Michigan federal judge on Thursday said a pension fund trying to take over as lead plaintiff in a suit against mortgage business Rocket Companies Inc. does not need the court's permission to file a renewed class certification motion, but it "does so at its own peril." Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:16:53 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327012 The Ontario Securities Commission said Thursday that the operators of prediction market platform Polymarket have agreed to a 200,000 Canadian dollar ($144,456) penalty over allegations it served Ontario customers despite the jurisdiction's ban on binary options. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:51:52 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2327082?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2327082 Prosecutors told a Washington federal judge Thursday that they had secured approval for "deferred action" from the Department of Homeland Security on potential immigration proceedings against two Estonian men awaiting sentencing for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.