Elise Hansen

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a fair use case over Andy Warhol’s portraits of the music icon Prince, and federal courts are grappling with the first wave of lawsuits involving non-fungible tokens. Here are the top copyright and trademark cases to keep an eye on in the second half of 2022.

A former Coinbase manager was hit with criminal charges Thursday of participating in an insider trading scheme that allegedly netted more than $1.5 million, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to lob parallel civil claims quickly drew controversy.

As crypto winter hits the once-booming digital asset industry, the trillion-dollar question that will be fiercely litigated in the first wave of Chapter 11 cases will deal with who owns cryptocurrency held by bankrupt trading and investment platforms, experts say.

A New York federal judge on Wednesday confirmed a $5.2 million arbitration award secured by the owner of the Bitmart cryptocurrency exchange against dozens of alleged hackers accused of carrying out an attack on the Bitcoin SV network last year.

Insurance broker Acrisure said Tuesday it raised $725 million to spur growth in a funding round guided by Varnum and Skadden that values the financial technology company at $23 billion.

Bank of America NA has been hit with a proposed class action alleging it doesn’t tell account holders that there is “virtually no recourse” to recoup losses if fraud occurs through peer-to-peer payment platforms like Zelle and Venmo.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase can’t pause a lawsuit accusing it of running a misleading dogecoin sweepstakes while it appeals an earlier order in the case, a California federal judge said Tuesday.

Wells Fargo has defeated claims that it aided fraud when a digital-asset trading company’s funds were allegedly stolen during an attempted $4 million bitcoin purchase, with a Georgia federal court finding that the bank wasn’t sufficiently involved to be responsible.

Three cryptocurrency buyers claim Coinbase operates as an unregistered securities exchange and name 79 digital assets trading on the platform they believe should be classified as securities, according to a proposed class action in New York federal court.

Online lending company Oportun’s recently acquired automated banking platform, Digit, is facing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigation into whether it misled users, Oportun disclosed Tuesday.

Coinbase is facing an investigation from New York’s Department of Financial Services over compliance questions ranging from the Bank Secrecy Act and cybersecurity to customer support, the cryptocurrency exchange said in a regulatory filing Friday.

Private equity firm Madison Dearborn will shell out $1.8 billion to acquire peer-to-peer payments company MoneyGram in a deal guided by Vinson & Elkins, Paul Hastings, Latham, Kirkland and Covington, the companies said Tuesday.

A Massachusetts man accused of illegally selling $18 million in cryptocurrency tokens hit back against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations, saying the agency didn’t show the tokens were securities.

From enforcement actions in the cryptocurrency space to app store payment disputes to the fallout from this year’s meme stock wars, here are some key fintech cases to watch in 2022.

A pair of blank-check companies, one focused on technologies such as financial technology and the other on energy-transition technologies, made their debuts Friday in initial public offerings that raised a combined $400 million.

A suit accusing a Florida real estate developer of duping foreign investors out of $100 million took a big step forward as a federal judge certified a class, rejecting arguments that some investors’ participation in a parallel state court suit made class treatment inappropriate.