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Introduction The growing fascination with digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and tokens, presents legal and operational challenges to investors, entrepreneurs and service providers, not to mention the regulators who oversee them. Perhaps no cryptocurrency issue presents more challenges than custody: how do individuals, broker-dealers, investment advisers, private funds and registered investment...

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On Sept. 11, 2018, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the National Credit Union Administration and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (the Bureau and, collectively, the Agencies) issued a formal statement (the Statement)...

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With U.S. student loan debt totaling $1.5 trillion, employers are seeking ways to ease the burden of repayment for their employees and prospective employees. These have included signing bonuses and direct repayment of outstanding loans. Now, employers appear able to make matching-type contributions to retirement plans based on student loan...

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