securities

The Securities and Exchange Commission clarified on Thursday that memecoins do not fall under the purview of federal securities laws, although fraudulent activities involving memecoins could still be subject to legal consequences. What happened: The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance stated in a...

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based meme coin launchpad Pump.fun was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Thursday, claiming that all tokens created on the platform are unregistered securities. What happened: The suit, filed in a New York federal court, named Baton Corporation, a U.K.-registered company, as...

To protect stablecoins from regulatory frameworks as applied to traditional securities, Circle (CRYPTO: USDC) stepped into the legal case of Binance (CRYPTO: BUSD) and the SEC. What Happened: Circle entered an ongoing legal dispute between the SEC and cryptocurrency exchange ...

The crypto sector, as it currently is, has been described as a “Wild West” filled with "fraudsters and thieves." To maintain control, European Parliament suggests crypto assets should be classified as securities by default. This recommendation also pushes for the provision of...

Talk about an angry tweet. The United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York slapped the founders of Three Arrows Capital, a failed crypto hedge fund, with a subpoena on the social media platform Twitter. Liquidators served the subpoena to Three Arrows founders Kyle Davies and...

According to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, cryptocurrency Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is an unregistered security.  The lawsuit also accused Solana Labs, Solana Foundation, Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, Multicoin Capital Management LLC, Kyle...

Securities regulators in Texas and Alabama are expanding their investigations into the collapse of crypto platforms Voyager Digital (OTC: VYGVF) and Celsius Network. According to Bloomberg, the regulators are investigating if the crypto firms kept information hidden about their loans and...

The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) issued a cease-and-desist order against crypto trading and lending platform BlockFi alleging that BlockFi’s Interest Account (BIA) product is a security under state rules. What Happened: According to a report from CoinDesk, if the order takes effect...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. A new SEC rule may end up changing who can invest in certain securities.   After an amendment to the SEC...

Luckin Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ: LK) Chairman and board members are trying to oust each other in the aftermath of the accounting scandal, as revealed in multiple filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. What Happened The Chinese coffee chain company's board of directors...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered a New York-based crypto startup to pay a fine of $250,000 for conducting an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO). What Happened The SEC, on Wednesday, has imposed a $250,000 penalty on a crypto startup for violating the registration provisions...

There are over 10,000 different securities from 100 countries that trade on the three tiers of OTC Markets.  We use the term “security” as a catch-all because it can refer to a variety of financial instruments. Even though all these instruments give investors some amount of...

Securities are investment vehicles or financial instruments that represent ownership of debt, publicly traded companies or rights of ownership. The following are securities for each common investment topic: Public Company Equity: Stocks Public Company Debt: Bonds Rights of Ownership: Options...

In part 1 of this article, we discussed the importance of liquidity and premium/discount for preferred stocks. In this second part, we will discuss the different types of preferred stocks, and their ties to interest rates. 3) Types of preferred stocks Generally, there are three types of preferred...