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,...
10/19/2023 11:05:56 AM The prisoner’s dilemma in MiCA – ESMA’s strong push for supervisory convergence By Daniel Klingenbrunn Janina Heinz The day on which the EU’s comprehensive set of crypto-regulation rules, the Market in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCA) will enter into...
5/12/2023 1:25:42 PM The final Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) - a comprehensive overview By Daniel Klingenbrunn Alexander Glos Jan Struckmann The public view on crypto-assets ranges from the holy grail of disintermediation in financial services to mere scam. Regardless of that,...
3/23/2023 2:21:01 PM The new DLT Pilot Regime – the start of a new era in securities trading and settlement? By Daniel Klingenbrunn Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos On 23 March 2023, the new DLT Pilot Regime entered into force. This European market infrastructure regulation aims to promote distributed...
4/5/2022 3:21:47 PM Foreign Private Issuers and Cybersecurity Disclosure: Potential Implications of the SEC's New Proposal By Doug Smith David Ludwick Virginia Flower What has happened? The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a broader, more prescriptive disclosure regime for...