6/30/2021 1:48:55 PM City Week 2021: financial crime – the latest regulatory and enforcement trends By Christopher Robinson On day 2 of this year’s virtual City Week event, I was joined by investigators and regulators to discuss the latest developments in...
6/30/2021 10:24:18 AM EU Commission approves EU-to-UK data transfers (for now) By Giles Pratt The EU Commission has adopted an ‘adequacy’ decision that will allow businesses to continue to send personal data from the EEA to the UK...
6/29/2021 3:47:38 PM City Week 2021: Cryptoasset custody – the legal and regulatory position By Sharon Grennan On the opening day of the 2021 City Week conference, Freshfields partners Mark Kalderon and Cyrus Pocha, and senior associate Claire...
6/29/2021 3:05:59 PM New requirements for foreign tech companies in Russia By Olga Chislova Until recently, foreign tech companies not represented in Russia were not subject to Russian law, except the requirement to use a server...
6/28/2021 1:57:48 PM Ransomware Threat and Cybersecurity Regulation: What’s Next? By Brock Dahl Boris Feldman The following article was published by Bloomberg Law on June 25, 2021. Click here to view. Recent large-scale ransomware attacks are...
6/25/2021 1:20:51 PM The BIS picks a fight on digital currencies By Brock Dahl Cyrus Pocha On June 23, the Bank for International Settlements pre-released one chapter of its Annual Economic Report. The chapter extols the...
6/22/2021 3:57:32 PM Europe: videoconferencing systems in the regulatory spotlight By Tibor Szigetvari Philipp Roos Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year, video conferencing has become an indispensable part of everyday professional...
6/21/2021 9:05:26 AM European Commission publishes preliminary findings of its sector inquiry into the Internet of Things By Andreas von Bonin Amaryllis Müller Thomas McGrath Tuna Tanik Eugene McQuaid +2 more... Show less The growing use of interconnected devices which collect and exchange data over the internet (the Internet of Things or IoT) is...
6/18/2021 10:30:22 AM BCBS consults on the prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures By Michael Raffan Last week, whilst El Salvador was contemplating reforms that should eventually allow Bitcoin to be used for everyday payments, a thousand...
6/18/2021 3:59:57 AM Hong Kong to introduce new mandatory licensing regime to regulate virtual asset exchanges By Kristie Chung Matthew O'Callaghan On 21 May 2021, the Hong Kong Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) published its consultation conclusions on the...
6/17/2021 4:10:09 PM Biden and the EU: what his first presidential summit means for tech By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Christiaan Smits On 16 June the first EU-US Summit since President Biden took office (and the first in seven years) was held in Brussels. Dubbed ‘Towards...
6/10/2021 3:36:36 PM What might happen when cash is no longer king? By Lauren Moorin Cyrus Pocha Rodwell Ndengeya The Bank of England has published a discussion paper which sets out its thoughts on new forms of digital money, including on the...