4/30/2021 12:00:00 AM The OECD pillars and the road to 'tax peace': are we nearly there yet? By Brin Rajathurai The OECD is tantalisingly close to agreement on its two-pillar approach to redesigning the international tax system, in large part due to...
4/29/2021 3:36:39 PM Investing in fintechs – navigating heightened merger control scrutiny By Rikki Haria Maija Hall Thomas Reyntjens Paul Seppi +1 more... Show less 'The hostility we encountered from the beginning of the process was really quite shocking,' the CEO of Seedrs told The Times after his...
4/28/2021 9:20:12 AM Focus on tech: revised German regulation further extends the control of foreign direct investments in the technology sector and beyond By Alexander Sekunde Frank Röhling Ilka Oberländer Jonas von Kalben +1 more... Show less Germany – together with Italy and France – has been at the forefront of the wider European trend to intensify the screening of the...
4/28/2021 7:19:43 AM The outlook for UK challenger banks By Lauren Moorin Michael Raffan Francesca Triggs It has now been some years since challenger banks started making their presence known in the UK. EU regulatory reform in the shape of the...
4/28/2021 12:00:00 AM Data protection in Germany: Federal Labour Court dismisses employee’s blanket request for email correspondence By Hendrik Witt Julia Förster According to a decision by Germany’s Federal Labour Court (‘the Court’), an employee must specify which (copies of) email correspondence...
4/27/2021 10:59:24 AM 'Britcoin’: a central bank digital pound for the UK By Charlotte Witherington Cyrus Pocha Tara Petterson On 19 April 2021, as part of the UK's Fintech Week, the Bank of England and HM Treasury announced the creation of a taskforce to explore...
4/26/2021 3:53:44 PM World IP Day – our take on patent trends and developments By Alexandra Morgan Dr. Christopher Stothers Laura Whiting Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont Nina Bayerl Ben Cohen +3 more... Show less WIPO member states designated the 26th April as World IP Day, to commemorate the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in...
4/26/2021 12:00:00 AM UK fintech - regulatory developments to watch out for By Claire Harrop Last week was a busy week for UK fintech nerds. UK Fintech Week 2021 was an action-packed event which took place entirely virtually....
4/23/2021 12:00:00 AM UK Jurisdiction Taskforce publishes groundbreaking Digital Dispute Resolution Rules By Roopa Mathews On 22 April 2021 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, published its Digital Dispute...
4/21/2021 12:00:00 AM The EU seeks to balance AI risks and benefits By Ben Cohen Natalie Pettinger Kearney Giles Pratt Andrew Austin Sascha Schubert Christoph Werkmeister +3 more... Show less The European Commission has now published its legislative proposal on Artificial Intelligence. We’ll be publishing a deep dive on...
4/20/2021 12:00:00 AM Non-fungible tokens – a case for German or European financial regulation? By Daniel Klingenbrunn Alexander Glos Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have recently gained significant public attention. In March 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a digital...
4/16/2021 3:00:07 PM New Standard Contractual Clauses on the horizon: five key take-aways for businesses By Philipp Roos Alexander Bothe Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) are a highly relevant transfer mechanism under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) used...