2025
2024
- “Crypto’s future: Stable investment or risk gamble,” WHYY, December 12, 2024
- Monique Mulima, “Trump’s Pick for SEC Chair Blamed the US for FTX Crypto Disaster,” Bloomberg, December 10, 2024
- Seana Smith, “Crypto needs ‘sensible’ regulation regardless of who’s elected,” yahoo!finance, October 15, 2024
- Emily Mason, “Wyoming’s Stablecoin Plan Is Latest Crypto Push by Cowboy State,” Bloomberg, September 18, 2024
- Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Mark Cuban is Kamala Harris’ on-call billionaire. What’s he after?” Semafor, September 6, 2024
- Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “From crackdown to comeback: Crypto’s fortunes turn in Washington,” Semafor, July 29, 2024
- Matt Levin, “Republicans are Embracing Crypto,” Marketplace, July 17, 2024
- Emily Graffeo and Lydia Beyoud, “US Paves Way for Ether ETFs in Test of Crypto Demand Beyond Bitcoin,” Bloomberg, May 24, 2024
- Declan Harty, “Crypto billionaire Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison,” Politico, April 30, 2024
- Matt Levin, “Bitcoin devotees are rejoicing after the latest crypto thaw,” Marketplace, March 1, 2024
- David Gura, “Will Bitcoin ETFs lead to crypto becoming more common in investment portfolios?” NPR, February 6, 2024
- Alexander Osipovich, “Wall Street Gets Laser Eyes in Bid for Bitcoin ETF Bucks,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2024
2023
- Dave Michaels, “Binance Copped a $4 Billion Plea but Is Still Fighting the SEC,” Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2023
- Leo Schwartz and Jeff John Roberts, “Gary Gensler has remade the SEC into a crypto nemesis and climate warrior. Now a backlash is brewing,” Fortune, November 28, 2023
- Thomas Barrabi, “Customers outraged over Winklevoss twins’ secret $282M crypto withdrawal: ‘You didn’t tell anyone,’” NY Post, October 17, 2023
- Kevin Penton, “Sullivan & Cromwell, Fenwick Draw Scrutiny In FTX Debacle,” LAW360, October 3, 2023
- Declan Harty, Eleanor Mueller, Sam Sutton and Jasper Goodman, “How SBF’s fall keeps rattling Capitol Hill,” Politico, October 3, 2023
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Trial of the Century Is Set to Begin,” NYT, October 2, 2023
- Brooke Masters and Scott Chipolina, “Crypto vs SEC: What Grayscale’s court victory means for bitcoin ETFs,” Financial Times, August 30, 2023
- Dave Michaels and Paul Kiernan, “SEC’s Strategy for Regulating Crypto Stumbles in Ripple Case,” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2023
- Claire Williams, “BNY Mellon crypto custody application didn’t anticipate SEC accounting rule,” American Banker, June 28, 2023
- Edd Gent, “U.S. SEC Puts Cryptocurrencies’ Futures in Crosshairs,” IEEE Spectrum, June 14, 2023
- Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Congress may be done with crypto,” SEMAFOR, June 7, 2023
- Michael Martin and David Gura, “The SEC unveils 13 charges in a lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance,” NPR, June 6, 2023
- Lily Jamali, “Climate change is high on the agenda as the World Bank gets a new president,” Marketplace, May 2, 2023
- Michelle Celarier, “Is the Bitcoin Comeback for Real?” Institutional Investor, April 24, 2023
- Russ Bowen, “NC State Treasurer weighs in on First Citizens buying Silicon Valley Bank,” March 27, 2023
- Matt Levin, “Who are bank examiners, and what do they do?” Marketplace, March 24, 2023
- Leo Schwartz, “Is Operation Chokepoint real? A crypto skeptic weighs in,” Fortune, March 22, 2023
- David Yaffe-Bellany and Erin Griffith, “Crypto Wants it Shine Back,” The New York Times, March 20, 2023
- Joe Light, “Struggling Silvergate Bank Held Reserves for Major Stablecoins, Raising Investor Protection Questions,” Barron’s, March 4, 2023
2022
- Lily Jamali, “Can crypto restore its credibility?” Marketplace, December 13, 2022
- Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “A Republican joins the crypto backlash in Congress,” December 2, 2022
- Sharon Thiruchelvam, “FTX failure resets US crypto legislative programme,” Risk.net, November 29, 2022
- Molly Fischer, “Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?,” November 28, 2022
- Joseph Zeballos-Roig, “Capitol Hill finally wants to regulate crypto. But some critics say just ‘let it burn.’” Semafor, November 23, 2022
- Maxwell Strachan, “How SBF Created the New Playbook for Manipulating Washington, D.C.”, Vice, November 22, 2022
- David Yaffe-Bellany, “Inside a Crypto Nemesis’ Campaign to Rein In the Industry,” New York Times, November 21, 2022
- Ephrat Livini, “What is Next for the FTX Fallout,” Dealbook, November 20, 2022
- Hannah Albarazi, “Would Rules Have Cured FTX’s ‘Internal Controls Wastleand’?” Law360, November 18, 2022
- Matt Levin, “FTX debacle worsens crypto’s trust issues,” Marketplace, November 18, 2022
- Sarah Wynn, FTX failure may strengthen case for more robust crypto regulation, Roll Call, November 15, 2022
- Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Crypto faces a crisis of confidence amid FTX collapse, The Hill, November 11, 2022
- Jeff Ostrowski, FTX Turmoil Undermines Miami’s Crypto Strategy, Commercial Observer, November 10, 2022
- David Yaffe-Bellany, “Binance Pulls Out of Deal to Acquire Rival Crypto Exchange FTX,” November 9, 2022
- Joe Light, “Face-Off Between Crypto Billionaires Is the Market’s Biggest Near-Term Risk,” Barron’s, November 9
- David Gura, “Cryptocurrency exchange FTX files for bankruptcy,” NPR, November 11, 2022
- Lily Jamali, “Crypto exchange Binance walks away from FTX deal,” Marketplace, November 9, 2022
- “Legal Explainer: Regulators face unique hurdles in FTX probes,” Reuters Video, November 14, 2022
- Matt Levin, “What Message is the SEC sending about celebrity crypto endorsements with Kim Kardashian fine?” Marketplace, October 4, 2022
- Sarah Wynn, “GOP midterm victory would add pressure on fintech regulators,” Roll Call, October 4, 2022
- Sarah Emerson, David Jeans, & Phoebe Liu, “Crypto Darling Helium Promised A ‘People’s Network.’ Instead, Its Executives Got Rich.” Forbes, September 23, 2022
- David Dayen, “Battle Royale for Crypto Oversight Kicks Off,” The American Prospect, September 15, 2022
- Lily Jamali, “With “the merge,” Ethereum tries to set a greener example for crypto,” Marketplace, September 15, 2022
- Kharishar Kahfi, “The world’s securities law watchdog is scrambling to create ‘common standards’ for crypto,” The Block, September 3, 2022
- Cynthia Littleton, “A Crypto Skeptic Takes on Web3: ‘There’s No Real-World-Use Case’ for Cryptocurrencies,” Variety, August 17, 2022
- Ben Margulies, “Fed announces new guidelines after master account controversy,” Central Banking, August 16, 2022
- Sarah Wynn, “’Securities’ label in SEC insider case may have broad crypto impact,” Roll Call, August 2, 2022
- Katy Pickens, “Law professor tells Steamboat audience crypto not worth the hype,” Steamboat Pilot & Today, July 26, 2022
- Julia Gerstein, “Will Current Geopolitical Crisis Influence Crypto Market?” Coinspeaker, July 11, 2022
- Michael Bologna, “Crypto Crash Weighs on States’ Plans for Tax Payment by Bitcoin,” Bloomberg, July 5, 2022
- Tory Newmyer, “Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts,” The Washington Post, July 3, 2022
- Kristine Liao, “Crypto companies are getting into carbon credits. But can they actually help the climate?” Popular Science, June 27, 2022
- Rebecca Heilweil, “Now might be a good time to think about crypto insurance,” Vox, June 17, 2022
- Lauren Foster, “Proposed Legislation Promises to Empower Investors. What to Know.” Barron’s, June 14, 2022
- David Yaffe-Bellany and Erin Griffith, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall,” June 14, 2022
- Scott Nover, “Why crypto lender Celsius Network halted withdrawals,” June 13, 2022
- Lauren Foster, “How ‘Greenwashing’ Cost a CEO His Job,” Barron’s, June 2, 2022
- David Yaffe-Bellany, “A Crypto Emperor’s Vision: No Pants, His Rules,” New York Times, May 14, 2022
- Lily Jamali, “Crypto asset meltdown prompt calls for regulation,” Marketplace, May 13, 2022
- Elise Hansen, “Crypto Meltdown Could Speed Stablecoin Regulations,” LAW360, May 13, 2022
- Katrina Northrop, “Born to Run: After capitalizing on China’s crypto boom, Binance CEO “CZ” fled China just in the nick of time – and he’s been running ever since,” The Wire China, May 8, 2022
- Chris Sommerfeldt, “Mayor Adams suggests scrapping longstanding N.Y. cryptocurrency licensing rule,” New York Daily News, April 27, 2022
- Jacob Kozhipatt, “Experts Debate What Elon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition Means for Dogecoin,” Business Insider, April 27, 2022
- Charlie Dunlap, “The National Security Challenges of Ransomware and Cryptocurrency,” Lawfire (Podcast), April 4, 2022
- Corbin Hiar, “Fidelity sparks climate concern by using crypto in 401(k),” E&E News, April 28, 2022
- Carolina Bolado, “Crypto Industry Can’t Count on Congress, At Least Not Yet,” Law360, April 26, 2022
- Matt Levin, “What are stablecoins, and why are regulators worried about them?” Marketplace, April 18, 2022
- Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, “Crypto Industry Helps Write, and Pass, Its Own Agenda in State Capitols,” New York Times, April 10, 2022
- David Gura, “Encore: The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them,” NPR, March 30, 2022
- Corbin Hiar, “Michael Brune’s next battle: Clean up bitcoin,” E&E News, March 29, 2022
- Lily Jamali, “Proposed bitoin ETFs spotlight debate over rules governing crypto,” Marketplace, March 22, 2022
- David Gura, “The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them,” NPR, March 21, 2022
- Claire Williams, “A big bank is in trouble, and no one knows which one or why,” America Banker, March 10. 2022
- Paul Kiernan and Andrew Duehren, “Bitcoin Price Surges on Biden’s Crypto Executive Order,” Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2022
- Lily Jamali, “Donations fortify Ukraine’s defense spending,” Marketplace, March 9, 2022
- Corbin Hiar, “Tesla fights shareholder push to ditch carbo-rich crypto,” E&E News, March 8, 2022
- David Dayen, “The Real Reasons Republicans Are Blocking Biden’s Fed Nominees,” The American Prospect, March 3, 2022
- Nitasha Tiku and Jeremy B. Merrill, “Ukraine asked for donations in crypto. The things got weird,” Washington Post, March 3, 2022
- Matt Levin, “As the ruble tumbles, cryptocurrency attracts ordinary Russians, oligarchs, maybe even the state itself,” Marketplace, March 1, 2022
- Joseph A. Smith, “A Practitioner’s View on the Value of Team-Based, Student-Powered Interdisciplinary Research,” Methodspace, February 2022
- Charlie Dunlap, “Lee Reiners on “Russian Sanctions will Compel Further Adoption of Cryptocurrency and Increase Compliance Risks for Cryptocurrency Companies,” Lawfire, February 28, 2022
- Elliot Wilson, “Can the Cowboy State sell crypto to the Fed?” February 25, 2022
- Ben Sessoms, “Crypto miner power draw raises environmental concerns,” Carolina Public Press, February 25, 2022
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Stephen Gandel, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni “Wall Street Bumps Pay to Stem a Talent Exodus,” New York Times, February 9, 2022
2021
- Chad Day, “Only Two Senators Own Crypto Assets. Both Are shaping the Industry’s Rule,” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2021
- Sharon Thiruchelvam, “New Fed regulation head unlikely to roll back all Trump changes,” Risk.net, December 3, 2021
- “Here’s what’s on the horizon for crypto regulation,” CNBC Crypto Night in America, November 24, 2021
- Matt Ott, “Shiba Inu passes Dogecoin as top “dog” in cryptocurrency,” ABCNews, November 1, 2021
- Andrew Singer, “Cypto lending firms on the hot seat: New regulations are coming?” Cointelegraph, October 29, 2021
- Andy Blye, “Shifting Sands,” Phoenix Business Journal, October 29, 2021
- Edd Gent, “Why is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?” IEEE Spectrum, September 30, 2021
- Peter Feltman, “SEC seen having clear case against Coinbase’s lending program,” Roll Call, September 28, 2021
- Elizabeth Weise, “Climate change is ‘a freight train’ making some places too dangerous to live in, experts say,” USA Today, September 28, 2021
- “Biden administration set to ban crypto for ransomware payments,” CNBC The Exchange, September 17, 2021
- Cristiano Lima, “Facebook’s latest attempt to build a crypto empire meets familiar skepticism in Washington,” Washington Post, September 8, 2021
- Eric Lipton and Ephrat Livini, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington,” New York Times, September 5, 2021
- Roger Parloff, “Portrait of a 29-year-old billionaire: Can Sam Bankman-Fried make his risky crypto business work?” Yahoo! Finance, August 12, 2021
- Dave Michaels and Alexander Osipovich, “SEC Chief Gary Gensler Braces for Clash With Crypto Traders,” Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2021
- Maria Aspan, “How Caitlin Long turned Wyoming into crypto country,” Fortune, July 29, 2021
- Neil Haggerty, “Why SEC’s climate disclosure rules could hit banks hardest,” American Banker, July 2, 2021
- Elena Botella, “Wyoming Wants to Be the Crypto Capital of the U.S.,” Slate, June 28, 2021
- Sophie Quinton, “Relaxed Rules Attract Entrepreneurs to State ‘Sandboxes’,” PEW, June 15, 2021
- Andrea Vittorio and Jake Holland, “Meat Producer’s Hack Ups Pressure to Regulate Crypto Payments,” Bloomberg Law, June 3, 2021
- Brendan Pedersen and Hannah Lang, “Will FDIC, OCC follow Fed into global climate group?” American Banker, May 18, 2021
- Terrence Fraser, “Amazon doesn’t take Dogecoin as payment on its site,” AP News, May 6, 2021
- Alexander Osipovich, “This Vegan Billionaire Disrupted the Crypto Markets. Stocks May be Next,” Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2021
- Danica Coto, “Eastern Caribbean Dollar Goes Digital, A Help for the Unbanked,” Business Journal, April 8, 2021
- Claire Williams, “FSOC Takes the First Step to Regulate Hedge Funds by Forming a Working Group. What’s Next?” Morning Consult, March 31, 2021
- Catherine Boudreau, “When companies go green, the planet doesn’t always win,” Politico, March 30, 2021
- Ashley Daley, “Who protects landlords? Eviction moratorium extended through June,” WCNC, March 29, 2021
- Andrew Singer, “Bitcoin ETF may come to US, but not all crypto investors think it’s needed,” Cointelegraph, March 5, 2021
- Chris Mathews, “Progressive hopes for a radical SEC agenda face a unicorn problem,” MarketWatch, February 26, 2021
- Avery Ellfeldt, “SEC to toughen climate rules on companies,” E&E News, February 25, 2021
- Matt Ott, “Cost of a single bitcoin exceeds $50,000 for the first time,” AP News, February 16, 2021
- Peter Feltman, “Fintech experts divided on form for U.S. central digital currency,” Roll Call, October 27, 2021
2020
- Jon Hill, “Barrett May Reinforce High Court Trends For Banking Industry,” Law 360, September 29, 2020
- Avery Ellfeldt, “This watchdog wants to ‘demystify’ America’s COVID-19 bailout,” E&E News, August 24, 2020
- Andrew Singer, “WisdomTree Tests SEC’s Bitcoin Acceptance Threshold With Latest ETF Filing,” Cointelegraph, June 20, 2020
- Peter Feltmen, “Optimism abounds on cryptocurrency ETFs despite lack of action,” Roll Call, June 9, 2020
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Comment for Federal Advisory Committees and Subcommittees 85 FR 21840, May 9, 2020
- Duke Today Staff, “Lee Reiners: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?” Duke Today, May 7, 2020
- Duke Law Staff, “Reiners, Lawrence JD/LLM ’21, and others from Duke Law contribute to Bass Connections analysis of predatory lending,” Duke Law: News, May 8, 2020
- Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Staff, “Seven Duke Research Projects Receive Catalyst Program Grants for 2020–2021,” Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions: News, May 5, 2020
2019
- Brendan Pedersen, “Does Amazon-Google-Microsoft hold on the cloud pose a risk to banking?” American Banker, September 30, 2019
- Dave Michaels and Alexander Osipovich, “Venture-Capital Stalwart Battles Washington’s Crypto Crackdown,” The Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2019
- Kristen Haunss, “Leveraged lending risk to be discussed at Congressional hearing Tuesday,” Reuters, June 3, 2019
- Kristen Haunss, “Regulatory crackdown unlikely in US leveraged loan market,” Reuters, March 15, 2019
2018
- Colin Colter, “Once Used for Natural Disasters, Resilience Theory Informs Financial Regulation Debate,” Duke Today, April 3, 2018
- Robert Schmidt and Benjamin Bain, “Who Wants to Be Bitcoin’s Watchdog?” Bloomberg Businessweek, January 12, 2018
- Max Diamond, “BitConnect, a cryptocurrency trader, ordered to stop operating in NC,” The Raleigh News & Observer, January 11, 2018
2016