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Latham & Watkins LLP

Charting the Future: Regulatory Milestones and Opportunities in AI, Online Safety, Cybersecurity, and Data Governance in the EU...

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The technology and digital regulatory environment in the EU and the UK is experiencing significant evolution in 2025 and beyond. These legal developments present both significant opportunities and complex compliance...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: A New Era in Online Safety: What Global Companies Need to Know About the UK’s Online Safety Act

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Over the course of 2025, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) has been gradually coming into force reshaping the online safety landscape globally. The OSA requires in-scope companies to identify, mitigate, and manage...more

Cooley LLP

UK Government Unveils 2024 Export Control Trends: Essential Insights and Implications for Businesses

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The UK’s Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) published strategic export controls statistics for 2024. As a reminder, the ECJU issues (or manages) five types of export control/trade...more

A&O Shearman

UK Financial Stability in Focus report: AI in the financial system

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The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has published the Financial Stability in Focus report on AI in the UK financial system. The FPC considers the potential benefits of AI with its growing...more

J.S. Held

Navigating the Renewable Energy Landscape: Post-Brexit and Government Transition in the UK

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Following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), the landscape for renewable energy targets has shifted. The Ukraine-Russia War, the Russia-EU gas dispute, and the ongoing turbulence in the Middle East...more

IR Global

Diversifying to boost financial resilience

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Q1: How can proactive risk management strategies help businesses navigate regulatory and economic uncertainties? The last few years have offered some, often difficult, lessons to many businesses who found themselves...more

White & Case LLP

AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - United Kingdom

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The UK prioritizes a flexible framework over comprehensive regulation and emphasizes sector-specific laws. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) The UK government's AI Regulation White Paper of...more

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Global antitrust enforcement report - 2025

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2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion, over double that of 2023 (USD2.9bn) and substantially...more

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The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA): What you need to do now

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We are now on the first stop – illegal harms – of Ofcom’s (the UK’s online safety regulator) roadmap for what online providers must do to comply with the OSA. - By March 16, 2025, in-scope services must assess the risk of...more

A&O Shearman

Zooming in on AI #17: AI at work

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The integration of AI in the workplace is revolutionising HR. From recruitment to performance analysis, AI use cases can streamline HR processes and enhance productivity. However, the deployment of AI by employers also brings...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Challenging Final Orders Under the NSIA – Merely Difficult, or Impossible?

Scottish chip firm loses temporary injunction application for relief while divestment decision is challenged by judicial review, following the UK issuing its third Annual Report on the NSIA. The UK High Court of Justice has...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in the United Kingdom AI Opportunities Action Plan

On January 13, 2025, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan. The AI Opportunities Action Plan outlines the UK’s intentions to become a world leader in artificial...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority publishes research note on bias in natural language processing

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The Financial Conduct Authority has published a research note on a pilot study into bias in natural language processing (NLP). The research note presents the results of a technical investigation into biases in word...more

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Regulatory monitoring - December 2024

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1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more

BCLP

Managing Technology Supply Chains: What the Advent of the UK’s Critical Third Party Regime Means for Financial Services Firms and...

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The FCA, PRA, and Bank of England have published their finalised critical third party (CTP) rules (and accompanying guidance) in PS24/16 Operational resilience: Critical third parties to the UK financial sector....more

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UK AI: existing regulators take the lead

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As further initiatives come in to play and legislation is on the horizon, existing regulators (such as the ICO, CMA, Ofcom and FCA) continue to press on with their approach to AI regulation, including through the Digital...more

Cooley LLP

[Webinar] AI Talks: AI + Regulatory - November 13th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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This session of Cooley’s AI Talks will cover ways to navigate the US, European Union, and UK regulatory and legislative risks of AI, including strategies for engaging with policymaking bodies and analyzing the business...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Benefits of Friends: Removing Space Export Controls for Allies (Part III of IV)

You know who your friends are. You’ve known them for a long time, you understand one another, and, importantly, you trust each other. Well, countries have friends too. Maybe country-friends have similar foreign and...more

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UK Technology Working Group and Investment Association report on Artificial Intelligence's Current and Future Uses in Investment...

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The U.K. Technology Working Group, supported by the Investment Association, published a report on the current and future usage of artificial intelligence in investment management. The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and HM...more

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EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on international data transfers

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This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of...more

DLA Piper

Navigating AI Liability Risks

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Our webinar explored liability that can be incurred from the creation use or deployment of AI systems and raised some important questions around the current and future regulatory landscape applicable to AI and liability. We...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2024

Across industries, companies are facing new and uncertain regulatory pressures and demands in areas including artificial intelligence, sustainability, algorithmic pricing and fintech-bank relations. In this issue of The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Safety: The Role of the Board in Assessing and Managing AI Risk

As AI systems become more complex, companies are increasingly exposed to reputational, financial and legal risk from developing and deploying AI systems that do not function as intended or that yield problematic outcomes. The...more

BCLP

Navigating the FemTech Regulatory Landscape: Best Practice & Future Developments

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The stakes are high for FemTech – as Benjamin Franklin noted: ‘it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.’...more

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U.K. consumer enforcement overhaul

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The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 will result in a landmark overhaul of the U.K. consumer protection regime. It will dramatically increase the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA's) enforcement powers...more

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