Technology is rapidly transforming the financial services industry, creating both new opportunities and complex regulatory challenges. Taft’s multidisciplinary FinTech team delivers comprehensive counsel to clients at the intersection of financial services and technology and beyond. Our attorneys advise clients on adapting to regulatory changes, managing risk, launching new ventures, developing innovative products, expanding into new markets, and achieving business objectives in a highly competitive market.

Taft’s FinTech Practice brings together attorneys from across the firm to represent early-stage and publicly traded companies, including banks, broker-dealers, alternative trading systems (ATSs), exchanges, advisors to private funds, trust companies, money service businesses, and digital asset trading platforms. The practice is widely recognized for advising leading operators of cryptocurrency and digital asset trading platforms before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), state banking and securities regulators, and the Financial Industry and Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA).

Taft’s FinTech team offers clients strategic representation across the full spectrum of financial technology, including:

  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (Digital Assets).
  • Payments and Lending.
  • Data Protection and Cybersecurity.
  • Crypto-Asset Disputes and Regulatory Enforcement Actions.
  • Corporate Transactions, Securities, and Financing.

Taft’s team guides clients through the integration of disruptive technologies such as blockchain, digital assets, and artificial intelligence, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and international laws and regulations. We are recognized for our thought leadership and our attorneys are frequent speakers at seminars and author numerous articles in national publications.