On February 11, 2026, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission published a circular permitting licensed intermediaries providing virtual asset dealing services to offer margin fina...
On February 11, 2026, the Securities and Futures Commission published frameworks allowing licensed virtual asset trading platforms to (a) offer perpetual contracts to professional investo...
Davis Polk partners Gabe Rosenberg and Zach Zweihorn and associate Billy Hicks authored “3 reasons we need digital asset market structure legislation” in Law360. In the article, the a...
On 24 December 2025, the Hong Kong Financial Services and Treasury Bureau and the Securities and Futures Commission jointly published consultation conclusions to their legislative proposa...
The OCC proposed a rule that would eliminate any uncertainty as to whether national trust banks can engage in non-fiduciary activities. If adopted, the proposal would align language in th...
Davis Polk partners David Portilla and Gabe Rosenberg authored “Digital assets, banking and regulation: 2026 policy outlook” in IFLR. In the article, the authors note that “2026 wil...
The Federal Reserve and FDIC took actions last week designed to facilitate crypto-related activities. The Federal Reserve rescinded its anti-crypto 2023 policy statement and replaced it w...
On 3 November 2025, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission published two circulars on the licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms. This client update identifies the ...
Davis Polk’s Lok Cheung and Martin Rogers contributed three articles on virtual asset laws and regulations in Hong Kong to Thomson Reuters Practical Law’s “Practice Notes” series....
Davis Polk partner Joe Hall and associates Boaz Goldwater and Justin Levine authored the “United States” chapter in the seventh edition of the Legal 500’s Blockchain & Crypto Assets...