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After the Supreme Court Judgement – What’s Next for Motor Finance Claims in the UK?

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/6/2025

The types of consumer credit arrangements at issue in all of the relevant motor finance cases are “three-cornered” transactions. Motor dealers would offer a car for sale, which a member of the public would then see and wish...more

GHOS Meeting: Basel III implementation and climate-related financial risks

A&O Shearman on 5/21/2025

The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BIS), met to discuss the implementation of Basel III and its work on climate-related...more

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

Hogan Lovells on 4/28/2025

On 1 April 2025, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology issued a policy statement setting out its key proposals for the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The Bill is intended to respond to an...more

The Meteoric Rise of Generative AI Has Regulators Gearing Up To Preserve Competition

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/27/2024

Key Points Artificial intelligence (AI) — and in particular generative AI, which creates new content — has recently emerged as a transformative tool with the power and potential to reshape familiar industries. Although...more

Bridging the Gap - UK Stands Up Data Transfers “Bridge” to the U.S.

BCLP on 10/12/2023

On 12 October the UK–U.S. “data bridge” becomes operational, providing an additional, compliant route for UK-outbound transfers of personal data to U.S. organisations that are EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework members. UK...more

AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

White & Case LLP on 8/10/2023

Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent and Expected Funds, Regulatory and Tax Developments to Look Out For - May...

Goodwin on 5/17/2023

Welcome to the second edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the non-listed funds sector. We have grouped...more

UK Medical Device Regulator Proposes a 12 Month Delay for UKCA Requirements and the New Medical Device Regulations

McDermott Will & Schulte on 10/24/2022

On Friday 21st October 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wrote to the medical device industry to explain its intention: - To extend the current standstill period by twelve months from...more

Buying a UK Crypto Business: The New Regulatory Hurdles

Goodwin on 9/21/2022

The advance of the regulation of crypto-assets and crypto-related service providers has been piecemeal in the U.K. The latest round of changes took place in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR) on 1 September...more

AI and Regulation: UK Government Proposes Pro-Innovation Approach

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 8/19/2022

On July 18, 2022, the UK government published high-level proposals for its approach to regulating uses of artificial intelligence (AI), as part of its National AI Strategy and, more broadly, its UK Digital Strategy. The...more

Rising Regulation of Fintech Innovation - Implications for PE Investments

Latham & Watkins LLP on 5/4/2022

Assertive regulators are bringing greater clarity and new challenges as they step up oversight of fintech innovation. As the fast-growing fintech industry thrives, the sector has begun to attract greater regulatory...more

UK Revenue Guidance on Cryptoasset Lending and Staking Using Decentralised Finance

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 2/25/2022

In early February, HMRC published a new chapter in its Cryptoassets Manual dealing with decentralised finance (“DeFi”). DeFi is an umbrella term encompassing a range of products which are comparable with traditional financial...more

Boosting African Fintech Investment

Conyers on 7/30/2021

New regulations in the British Virgin Islands are transforming the offshore centre into an international fintech hub — and African companies could benefit. Originally Published in African Legal....more

Insurance Regulators Pick Up the Pace on Climate Change

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/17/2021

At the beginning of the year, we published a short report on the surge in year-end insurance regulatory activity concerning climate change risks (available here). January was another busy month, and we report below on...more

Bitcoin 101: Halves, Halving, and ‘the Halvening’

Morgan Lewis - All Things FinReg on 5/13/2020

The virtual currency Bitcoin has been a hot topic in FinReg for some time, but in recent weeks mainstream interest in Bitcoin has grown in light of the approaching “halving” or “halvening.” So what is the “halvening” and why...more

FCA sets out approach to AML crypto supervision

Hogan Lovells on 3/10/2020

A Director of Enforcement at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out some of the key challenges the regulator expects in its new role as AML/CTF (anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing) supervisor for...more

UK FCA becomes AML/CFT crypto supervisor

Hogan Lovells on 1/21/2020

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has become the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) supervisor for some types of cryptoasset businesses. These will need to meet certain...more

Blockchain Week in Review - November 2019 #3

Perkins Coie on 11/27/2019

U.S. Developments - The Fed Chairman Comments on Potential for a US-backed Digital Currency - Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, wrote to Congress this week discussing the merits of implementing a central...more

Government select committee considers beneficial ownership register

Hogan Lovells on 3/20/2019

We blogged on 26 July 2018 about the government’s plans to publish a register of beneficial ownership of UK registered land. ...more

Brexit: the impact on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs)

Hogan Lovells on 3/18/2019

On 6 February 2019 the House of Commons and House of Lords approved The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (Patent SI), which, if it is signed into law, will come into force on Brexit day (i.e. 29 March 2019 or...more

Blockchain Week in Review - November 2018

Perkins Coie on 11/13/2018

Upcoming Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (“ETF”) Decisions - On January 4, 2018, NYSE Arca filed a proposed rule change to list 9 Bitcoin ETFs. Subsequently, the time for the Security Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to approve or...more

Financial Conduct Authority Warns Banking Industry of ICOs and Cryptocurrency

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 6/15/2018

Writing a “Dear CEO” letter to banking executives, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned executives on June 11, 2018, to perform enhanced due diligence on clients who use or trade cryptocurrency for business...more

UK publishes paper on Brexit and medicines regulation

Hogan Lovells on 11/22/2017

On the same day as the European Council voted to move the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Amsterdam, the UK Parliament issued a briefing paper on Brexit and medicines regulation. ...more

A look at how Blockchain could redefine the structure of the capital markets

Hogan Lovells on 11/7/2017

Could blockchain redefine the structure of the capital markets? The venue for trading and the management of risks of trades have traditionally been the role of exchanges and market infrastructure organizations such as the...more

Hogan Lovells Global Payments Newsletter - January 2017

Hogan Lovells on 1/18/2017

Welcome to the Hogan Lovells Global Payments Newsletter. In this monthly publication we provide an overview of the most recent payments, regulatory and market developments from major jurisdictions around the world as well as...more

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