29 Oct, 2021 Payments regulation to reach further in future By Simon Treacy The Treasury has set out its vision for the future of payments in the UK. The conclusion of its Payments Landscape Review identifies four...
28 Oct, 2021 The Long Arm of Competition law? NVIDIA/Arm : can the deal overcome innovation concerns? By Linklaters The European Commission announced that it has opened an in-depth Phase 2 investigation into the proposed acquisition of Nvidia of chip...
28 Oct, 2021 Show me the money: generosity toward CMA in yesterday's budget a signal of more regulatory intervention against big tech By Linklaters The UK's competition regulator the Competition and Markets Authority was a big winner in Rishi Sunak's budget yesterday with a grant of...
27 Oct, 2021 Regulation by stealth - could "indirect" supervision be going out of fashion? By Linklaters In the FCA's words, the perimeter report is designed to clarify some of the regulatory perimeter's complexities, explain what the FCA is...
21 Oct, 2021 Buy in haste - repent at leisure? Less likely if the Treasury's new proposals are accepted. By Linklaters It was only a matter of time - with the proliferation of easy access to credit through buy-now pay-later products ("BNPL") that are now...
21 Oct, 2021 Decisive Influenc-er: Do we need to think globally when it comes to special merger regimes for Big Tech? By Jonathan Ford Proposed UK competition reforms include a special merger control regime that is intended to be more lethal to deals involving big tech...
21 Oct, 2021 Investing in the future of Italian tech By Linklaters Turin recently hosted the Italian Tech Week 2021, the largest Italian tech event and an opportunity to consider the success and...
21 Oct, 2021 FCA suggests applying Senior Managers Regime to e-money and payments firms By Simon Treacy The Financial Conduct Authority thinks that its individual accountability regime should be extended to the payments and e-money sector....
20 Oct, 2021 New guidance on UK's Video Sharing Platform regime part of wider online harms reforms By Dianne Devlin Measures are needed to protect users from illegal content (e.g. terrorist content and child sexual abuse material) and, in some...
18 Oct, 2021 Should we go back to the drawing board? By Linklaters To paraphrase Alan Kay, perhaps the best way to predict the future U.S. regulation of digital assets is to invent it. Recent...
14 Oct, 2021 Where AI overlaps with financial services regulation By Simon Treacy Sophia Le Vesconte Early next year the UK’s Office for AI will release a white paper on governing and regulating artificial intelligence. This may pave the...
13 Oct, 2021 SEC Enforcement Director outlines focus areas, including obfuscation of evidence, cyber and admissions By Doug Davison During a recent speech, Gurbir Grewal, recently named Director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, cited a recent Gallup poll showing that...
12 Oct, 2021 Gathering clouds? UK regulators to suggest new resilience standards for some IT providers By Simon Treacy The UK regulators plan to team up next year to propose new standards on some IT companies providing services to financial services firms....
11 Oct, 2021 Japan launches solar panels in 2022 for Space Solar Power Systems By Kentaro Okamoto On 6 September 2021, Yomiuri Shimbun Online reported that the government of Japan would begin demonstration experiments to deploy solar...
07 Oct, 2021 Watch this space – the UK launches a National Space Strategy By Imogen Ormerod Ali Zu'bi In July, Jeff Bezos became the first billionaire in space on a suborbital Blue Origin flight, and next week he plans to beam up Captain...
07 Oct, 2021 Should we worry about un-stablecoins? By Linklaters Regulators around the world are growing concerned that stablecoin arrangements will become too-big-to-not-regulate. For example, the...