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Latest News in Capital Markets

  • January 15, 2025

    DeFi Upstart Brings On Seasoned Crypto Legal Chief

    Veteran crypto in-house attorney Rebecca Rettig will take on the chief legal officer role at Jito Labs, a developer of products on the Solana blockchain, as the firm's first legal hire, the company announced Thursday.

  • January 15, 2025

    Wells Fargo Unit Sued Over Ex-Rep's EB-5 Investment Scheme

    A Wells Fargo subsidiary has been hit with a suit in Nevada federal court by an attorney and real estate developer who claims she and several other entities were hit with a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action because the Wells Fargo subsidiary and one of its former employees gave bad investment advice.

  • January 15, 2025

    SEC's Last-Minute Musk Suit Could Be Scuttled Under Trump

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's latest lawsuit against Elon Musk is unlikely to be viewed favorably by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, which may press for a lesser penalty or even move to dismiss the case outright, attorneys told Law360 on Wednesday.

  • January 15, 2025

    SEC Says Restaurant Tech Co. Misled Investors On AI Product

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a non-monetary settlement with Presto Automation Inc. to resolve claims the restaurant technology company made false and misleading statements about aspects of its artificial intelligence product, which uses AI-assisted speech recognition technology to automate aspects of drive-thru order taking at quick-service restaurants.

  • January 15, 2025

    SEC Fines Advisers For Link To Alleged $410M IPO Fraud

    Three investment adviser representatives have agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly $540,000 to end the regulator's claims that they acted as unregistered brokers while soliciting investors for a private equity firm accused of defrauding investors in a $410 million pre-IPO share scheme.

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  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
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