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Jean-Francois Gerard Holly Insley Laura Llangozi Julia Förster

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November 30, 2020

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WorkLife2.0: preparing for the hybrid workplace

When a number of tech giants announced earlier this year that home working would be the norm until 2021, many were surprised. Now that...

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Jochen Ellrott James Nepaulsingh Naoki Matsushita

November 30, 2020

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Autonomous driving in Japan – part 4: insurance

It was announced in early November 2020 that Honda had become the world's first automaker to receive a national certification for Level 3...

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Jochen Ellrott

November 27, 2020

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Tech disruption in the legal sector

This the English translation of a short opinion piece on legal tech that I recently authored for Japanese publication Business Homu:

When...

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Cosmas Weigel

November 27, 2020

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Trust in the middleman? Data sharing service providers under the proposed European Data Governance Act

The European Commission (EC) has taken an all-important first step in implementing its European Data Strategy, which was announced in...

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John Risness

November 25, 2020

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Get ‘likes’ to get loans: the HKMA’s new approach to open banking

We all know popularity isn’t everything – but it may soon get you a bank loan in Hong Kong. In a new twist in the city’s open banking...

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Michele Davis Aimen Mir Paul Tiger Christine Laciak Thomas Lair

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November 20, 2020

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The newly proposed UK national security and investment regime and its potential impact on inbound M&A from the US

On November 11, 2020, the UK government published the National Security and Investment Bill (the “NSI Bill”), which, when enacted into...

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Christian Jöllinger

November 17, 2020

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Austrian draft legislation regarding digitised securities: legal issues regarding international securities settlement persist

With a view to establishing a legal framework for digitised global notes (digitale Sammelurkunde – DGNs), at the end of September...

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Alex McGregor Felix Roscam Abbing Eugene McQuaid Andrew Austin

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November 17, 2020

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The New Consumer Agenda: a glimpse of EU consumer law in 2025

On 13 November 2020, the European Commission ('the Commission') launched its New Consumer Agenda ('the Agenda') intended to further...

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Martin Dickson Rikki Haria Bertrand Guerin James Aitken Thomas Lübbig

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November 17, 2020

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A Prime example of the issue with Big Data? – European Commission issues Statement of Objections in Amazon probe

The European Commission (EC) has advanced its probe into Amazon’s marketplace conduct – issuing it with a statement of objections...

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Daria Park

November 13, 2020

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Artificial intelligence and gender discrimination

Is AI sexist?

What if an artificial intelligence (AI)-run recruiting programme rejects a female candidate for a senior management position...

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Lu Feng

November 12, 2020

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Proposal for mandatory SFC licence for all virtual asset trading platforms

Each year we see major developments in Hong Kong’s virtual asset (VA) regulation being revealed at the city’s FinTech Week. This year is...

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Simon Orton Rhodri Thomas Peter Jaffe Laura Feldman

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November 10, 2020

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‘Progress is impossible without change’ – operational resilience for financial services institutions

Following a brief hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, regulators and governments have been recently been re-engaging with reforms in...

Olivia Radin Jane Peng

November 10, 2020

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AML update: focus on cross-border transactions and virtual currency

The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) are continuing to focus on cross-border money flows, as...

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Michael Evans

November 10, 2020

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The Digital Services Act – a liability regime for user content for the next twenty years?

The legal framework for digital services in the EU has been largely unchanged since the adoption of the e-Commerce Directive in 2000. The...

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Jochen Ellrott James Nepaulsingh Naoki Matsushita

November 6, 2020

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Autonomous driving in Japan – part 3: liabilities

Autonomous driving will shift our traditional understanding of driver responsibility as decisions behind the wheel will be heavily...

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Peter Jaffe Jillian Simons

November 5, 2020

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Freshfields team authors step-by-step approach to common privacy issues that arise in investigations in GIR’s newest data privacy publication

US privacy law doesn’t come up often in US investigations—but that doesn’t mean you can ignore it. Well-known laws like HIPAA arise in...

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Lutz Riede Matthias Hofer

November 4, 2020

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The EU’s P2B regulation: what you need to know

With 1 million businesses already selling goods and services via online platforms across the EU’s internal market, large online platforms...

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