The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged an investment adviser with illegal allocation of trades based on statistical results, implying that statistically eliminating chance for certain profitable trades proves a fraudulent motive. However, that is not always the case, and one should not base “intent” on statistical analyses. Click the link below to read the Law360 guest column by Tiago Duarte-Silva and Nicolas Morgan.
Detecting financial crimes through blockchain analytics
The Trump administration has prioritized their interest in digital assets and have fostered initiatives such as the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and US Digital...