04 Apr, 2024 “Technology: the future of disputes or the disputes of the future?” – Insights from Freshfields “Fast & Furious” event during the 2024 edition of PAW By Vasuda Sinha On 19 March 2024, Freshfields held its annual “Fast & Furious” event as part of Paris Arbitration Week. This year we explored two angles...
26 Mar, 2024 Trends in fintech: our EU predictions for 2024 By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Eva Schneider Alicia Hildner Daniel Klingenbrunn Jimena Gonzalez Victor Garcia Lopez +3 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team,...
27 Nov, 2023 Cryptoasset regulation: UK regulators give the industry a further glimpse of the future By Cyrus Pocha Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
10 Nov, 2023 Cross-border Perspectives on the Open Banking Debate in the United States By Lauren Moorin David Sewell Christopher Bernard Christine Lyon Janina Heinz Daniel von Bülow Matthew O'Callaghan Kenneth Hui Crystal Cheung Brock Dahl +7 more... Show less The proliferation of digital solutions for delivering financial products and services - through mobile applications, online platforms,...
19 Jun, 2023 FCA publishes final policy position on financial promotion rules for cryptoassets and near-final rules By Cyrus Pocha Craig Dewar Karishma Paun On 8 June 2023, the FCA published a policy statement (PS 23/6) setting out its final policy position on financial promotion rules for...
14 Apr, 2023 UK Financial Promotions Regime to Extend to ‘Qualifying Cryptoassets’ By Thomas Clark Christine Simpson Greg King Laila Pourdad +1 more... Show less On 27 March 2023 the UK Treasury published a draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order...
20 Dec, 2022 UK digital assets disputes in 2022 and what to expect in 2023 By Simon Orton Thomas Clark Emma Probyn George Ho +1 more... Show less 2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a...
09 Dec, 2022 The Edinburgh Reforms: A Love Rekindled By James Smethurst Michael Raffan Claire Harrop It’s a modern love story: a strong, mutually beneficial partnership where each party grew and nurtured the other over the years; then one...
11 Aug, 2022 Ownership of digital assets: cryptic proposals? By Claire Harrop Emma Probyn Claudia Rugue Are cryptoassets a type of property? This seems like a relatively straightforward question but for something that is very cutting edge,...
02 Aug, 2022 Building a more permanent sandcastle in the FMI sandbox By Claire Harrop Claudia Rugue In April 2022, in the response to its consultation on regulatory approach to, among other things, distributed ledger technology (DLT) in...
21 Jul, 2022 Does money grow on trees? The future monetary system By Cyrus Pocha Craig Dewar Claudia Rugue Bhavya Sharma +1 more... Show less The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has, rather grandly, set out its vision for the future of the monetary system in its recent...
19 Apr, 2022 Synthetic data and financial services: the FCA’s Call For Input By Rhodri Thomas Emma Probyn Sophie Horton On 30 March 2022, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a Call For Input regarding the use of ‘synthetic’ data in supporting...