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Digital Money, Financial Innovation, News

Protecting Innovation: The Kin Case, Litigating Decentralization, and Crypto Disclosures

Tyler Whirty/February 1, 2019June 19, 2022

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Kik, a messaging app that raised close to $100 million dollars in a 2017 initial coin offering (ICO) of its “Kin” token, is challenging a proposed Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action against the company. As has been discussed by…

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credit unions, financial innovation, fintech, decentralization, disintermediation
Financial Innovation, Financial Markets, Recommended Reading

Disintermediation and Decentralization: A Familiar Tune for Credit Unions?

Diego Zuluaga/October 17, 2018June 19, 2022

Last week, I had the pleasure of addressing the Michigan Credit Union Economic Summit on the future of financial services. I discussed emergent themes in financial regulation as a result of new technologies, and their implications for the industry. Here are my remarks — I hope you…

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