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The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, July 2025

Hogan Lovells on 7/29/2025

Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK government's communications in connection with the Chancellor's annual Mansion House speech, and the launch of its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness...more

UK Financial Insights from Katten | Issue 23

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 7/1/2025

UK Financial Insights from Katten is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds in the UK and Europe....more

The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, April 2025

Hogan Lovells on 4/28/2025

Key developments of interest over the last month include: the Central Bank of Somalia announcing the launch of the Somalia Instant Payment System (SIPS), the country’s first nationwide instant payments infrastructure; the...more

UK FCA Annual Work Programme 2025/26 – what this means for digital assets and blockchain

Hogan Lovells on 4/9/2025

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

The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, March 2025

Hogan Lovells on 3/25/2025

Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK government publishing a pro-growth Action Plan for regulators and regulation, including pledges from the FCA of relevance to payments and digital assets firms;...more

UK Government Abolishes Payment Systems Regulator

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/14/2025

On 11 March 2025, the UK government announced its decision to abolish the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) as part of a broader initiative to reduce regulatory burdens and stimulate economic growth. This action is intended to...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - February 2025 #2

BakerHostetler on 2/10/2025

Major Crypto Exchanges Launch New Products, Obtain Foreign Licenses - According to a recent company blog post, a major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange has launched a new staking product that will allow clients residing in...more

AI Regulation in 2025 - Has the UK Government’s Wait-and-See Gamble Played Off?

BCLP on 1/31/2025

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

AI and Machine Learning in Financial Crime Compliance

BCLP on 1/31/2025

As financial crime risks evolve, including those risks posed by the use of AI and other emerging technologies, so too must firms’ financial crime compliance response. It is unsurprising, therefore, that AI forms part of both...more

International Sanctions Requirements for Virtual Asset Service Providers: a Cayman Perspective

Conyers on 11/20/2024

As the war continues to rage on the Eastern front between Russia and Ukraine, the financial sanctions resulting from the initial invasions and ongoing conflict seem likely to continue to play a significant part in the global...more

UK Proposes New Approach To Regulate ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Market Amid Rising Consumer Debt Concerns

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/5/2024

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

Bank of England Seeks Innovation in Money and Payments, With a Focus on Distributed Ledger Technology

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/5/2024

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

Fintech Focus Podcast | Are Regulators Dictating Fintech Deal Terms?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/5/2024

Skadden presents the inaugural episode of our podcast “Fintech Focus,” which will explore current trends, news and developments in the fintech space. European counsel and host Joseph Kamyar kicks off the series with colleague...more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - January 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/30/2024

SEC Wins Summary Judgment on Howey Issue in Terraform Litigation - On December 28, 2023, Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York issued a summary judgment decision in SEC v. Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., a...more

The 3rd Fintech Epoch: Europe’s first-movers drive M&A amid tightened purse strings

White & Case LLP on 9/25/2023

UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector trends H2 2022 | H1 2023 — Fintech - Whilst many European start-ups have struggled to successfully execute funding rounds at valuation levels of yesteryear, more mature fintechs...more

Proposed EU Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets Approved by European Parliament

A&O Shearman on 5/10/2023

On April 20, 2023, the agreed text of the proposed European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation was given final approval by the European Parliament. The Regulation is intended to improve legal certainty in the regulatory...more

Focus on Fintech – Q1 2023

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 4/26/2023

In this latest issue of the firm’s Focus on Fintech newsletter, our attorneys discuss the dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and the increased scrutiny on banking activity, as well as a number of updates...more

Cost of living crisis and financial services: what’s the impact in the UK and Ireland?

Hogan Lovells on 3/29/2023

As part of the Hogan Lovells FinTech Fundamentals webinar series, on 22 March 2023 Financial Services Regulatory senior associate Jen Staniforth hosted a thought provoking panel discussion on the impact of the cost of living...more

Big Tech’s Competition Impacts on Payments and Retail Finance in Regulatory Spotlight

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 12/6/2022

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently published a discussion paper (here) summarizing its preliminary findings on the potential competition impact of Big Tech entry into retail financial services. The FCA is now...more

New European Fintech Regulations Affecting ICT Providers

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/17/2022

Both the EU and the UK are taking steps to enhance the rules in the financial services sector to add a new layer of direct regulation for key technology providers to banks and other regulated financial services institutions –...more

Crypto and NFT Firms Make Announcements; Treasury Interprets Crypto Reports; Crypto Enforcement Actions by CFTC, SEC, IRS, DOJ and...

BakerHostetler on 10/3/2022

Exchange Reaches Agreement to Sell Assets; New Crypto Products Launch - In a press release this week, Voyager Digital, a cryptocurrency exchange that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announced that it selected the...more

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