Legal issues and news

The saga over cryptocurrency regulation took another twist courtesy of a comment buried in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that hints at a case for U.S. jurisdiction over the ethereum blockchain.

A new Treasury Department request for comment invites the public to weigh in on how cryptocurrencies are used in illegal activities. It's part of the Biden administration's larger push to create a regulatory framework for digital assets.

The class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of mortgage borrowers who were allegedly placed into forbearance during the early days of the pandemic without their consent.

A federal judge found last year that a credit reporting dispute did not have to be investigated because the consumer's complaint was frivolous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission argue that the decision undermines a key purpose of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The document automation company Ocrolus recently launched a new version of its fraud detection platform. Here's how it works and what other services lenders should consider.

As Treasury cracks down on DeFi, observers say merging the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance is an increasingly impossible dream.

An appeals court ruled that the electronic delivery of private information that was not made public did not constitute real harm to the consumer.

Citigroup persuaded a federal appeals court to force a group of Revlon creditors to return more than half a billion dollars it accidentally sent them.

Bank of America is facing off in court with the bond insurer Ambac Financial Group in a $2.7 billion case that's one of its last legal hangovers from the subprime crisis.

Celsius Network, the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, may have hidden its financial trouble from its investors and "engaged in improper manipulation of the price" of the platform's tokens to boost the company's balance sheet and financials, according to a new court filing.