10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2025, The Fighting Workplace Bullying Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
Daily Compliance News: March 18, 2025, The Slack Channel Edition
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Retail Markets
Fintech Focus Podcast | Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Fintech Focus Podcast | The UK Fintech Investment Landscape
The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
A new edition of the Regulatory Initiatives Grid, which sets out details of current and planned regulatory initiatives for all the regulators affecting the financial services sector, has been published. It includes details of...more
On 8 April 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published their Annual Work Programme, detailing what the FCA intends to deliver in 2025/26—read on for our views on what this means for the digital assets space....more
After a flurry of AI-related papers from the previous UK Conservative government and regulators in 2023 and the first half of 2024 (and the establishment of the UK’s AI Safety Institute and the AI Policy Directorate),...more
In the First Edition of our Regulatory Disputes Series, digital assets and fintech topped our list of hot topics to watch for the future of offshore regulatory disputes. In this Fourth Edition, we provide an update on...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a consultation report on pre-hedging. The report assesses potential conduct and market integrity issues associated with the practice of pre-hedging. IOSCO...more
In the UK, 14 million people used “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) at least once in the six months leading up to January 2023. Frequent users were more than four times as likely as other consumers to have missed a payment on a...more
Many governments are grappling with the question of how to regulate artificial intelligence to ensure it is adopted safely and used responsibly without hampering innovation. Governments have generally indicated similar...more
On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England published a discussion paper on its approach to innovation in money and payments (the Discussion Paper). A recurring theme is the Bank of England’s focus on the potential use of...more
Rather than specifically regulating artificial intelligence (AI), the UK government has opted to rely on the existing web of laws and regulations applying to technology across a spectrum of sectors in its jurisdiction. But...more
On 22 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England published their strategic approaches to regulating AI in response to the UK government’s July 2022 AI...more
DeFi development carried quietly on throughout 2023, but DeFi protocols also faced significant hurdles. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) increased their...more
Following the declaration of the international artificial intelligence (AI) “Safety Summit” at Bletchley Park (Bletchley Summit) on November 1, 2023, and the White House’s October 30, 2023, Executive Order on AI (Executive...more
In our previous alert, we discussed the emerging trends for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services and mentioned a joint paper published by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial...more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main European digital regulatory and...more
As expected, the UK Government has announced, in its January 2022 consultation response (“the Response”), that the promotion of cryptoassets to UK consumers is to be regulated. This represents a significant step towards...more
Crypto businesses clearly remain high on the Regulator’s agenda. Two developments are of note...more
COVID-19: FCA updates statement on CBILS and BBLS - On 10 November 2020, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published an updated version of its statement on the regulation of firms in relation to the UK Coronavirus...more
Europe: European Commission communication on EU Retail Payments Strategy - On 24 September 2020 the European Commission published a communication setting out an EU Retail Payments Strategy identifying key priorities and...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: The Payment Systems Regulator has published its interim report on its market review into the supply of card-acquiring services. ...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Australia: Open banking launches with the initiation of the Consumer Data Right. Customers of Australia's four major banks can choose to share certain types of data...more