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On 18 June 2025, the Council of the European Union formally approved its negotiating mandates on the legislative proposals relating to...
The UK Government has saddled up to bring order to what it terms the “wild-west” of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). For years, BNPL has...
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On 23 October 2024 the UK government introduced the Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament (the DUAB). The DUAB is a wide-ranging and...
Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
On 15 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Services Regulator (PSR) published a call for information (CFI) on...
Overview Frequent readers of this blog know that we have been keeping a watchful eye on the UK’s evolving approach to the potential...
The regulation of cryptoassets around the world is an evolving landscape. In the EU, for example, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation...
On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has now published its report NFTs and the Blockchain: the risks to sport and culture. The report...
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Few endeavours on the EU’s agenda have attracted as much attention as the potential introduction of a retail central bank digital...
Few initiatives have been more eagerly awaited than the Commission's proposal on the revised PSD2 regime. It has been seven years since...
The public view on crypto-assets ranges from the holy grail of disintermediation in financial services to mere scam. Regardless of that,...