7/2/2025 5:35:32 PM Council adopts position on PSD3 and PSR – key take-aways By Alexander Glos Alicia Hildner Jimena Gonzalez Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn +2 more... Show less On 18 June 2025, the Council of the European Union formally approved its negotiating mandates on the legislative proposals relating to...
6/5/2025 2:34:07 PM DORA and critical ICT third-party service providers: the first round of “critical” designations approaching By Theresa Ehlen Alexander Glos Daphne van der Houwen Hans-Ulrich Klöppel John-Markus Maddaloni Carolin Kuehne +3 more... Show less The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), which has become applicable in January this year, has elevated ICT regulation in...
5/9/2025 10:16:12 AM FCA publishes discussion paper outlining its proposed approach to regulating certain cryptoasset activities By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Aleena Mann +1 more... Show less On 29 April 2025, HM Treasury published a draft statutory instrument in near-final form which will introduce a regulatory regime for...
1/2/2025 3:24:29 PM MiCAR perimeter issues – tokenized deposits and payment services By Alexander Glos Daniel Klingenbrunn As far as MiCAR is concerned, December 2024 was a busy month for both market participants and competent authorities. On 17 December 2024,...
12/18/2024 11:48:53 AM Harnessing Smart Data in the UK as a National Asset: What businesses need to know By Giles Pratt Rachael Annear Tristan Lockwood Adam Gillert Hazel Ling +2 more... Show less 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...
12/2/2024 3:50:58 PM Regulating cryptoassets in the UK: a guide to the road ahead By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
9/3/2024 3:26:26 PM Herding cats: English law and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations By Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Joana Fragata Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
8/16/2024 7:25:37 AM AI in finance: European Commission launched targeted consultation By Natalie Pettinger Kearney David Sewell Janina Heinz Victor Garcia Lopez Daniel Klingenbrunn +2 more... Show less On 18 June 2024, the European Commission (Commission) launched a targeted consultation to better understand and shape the future of...
8/2/2024 2:49:06 PM UK regulators keen to understand the future of digital wallets By Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard Rhea Dennis +1 more... Show less On 15 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Services Regulator (PSR) published a call for information (CFI) on...
6/21/2024 6:46:49 PM Grandfathering under MiCA – how member states approach the transitional regime By Janina Heinz Daphne van der Houwen Daniel Klingenbrunn Eva Schneider Steffie De Backer Eloi Roche +3 more... Show less The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides, or is it? As per the...
5/3/2024 12:05:14 PM The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
3/26/2024 3:11:27 PM Trends in fintech: our EU predictions for 2024 By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Eva Schneider Alicia Hildner Daniel Klingenbrunn Jimena Gonzalez Victor Garcia Lopez +3 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team,...