The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), which has become applicable in January this year, has elevated ICT regulation in...
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On 29 April 2025, HM Treasury published a draft statutory instrument in near-final form which will introduce a regulatory regime for...
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As far as MiCAR is concerned, December 2024 was a busy month for both market participants and competent authorities. On 17 December 2024,...
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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...
Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
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On 18 June 2024, the European Commission (Commission) launched a targeted consultation to better understand and shape the future of...
On 15 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Services Regulator (PSR) published a call for information (CFI) on...
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The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides, or is it? As per the...
On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team,...
The regulation of cryptoassets around the world is an evolving landscape. In the EU, for example, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation...