28 Jul, 2021 RegTech and SupTech initiatives across Asia - supporting regulatory compliance and supervision By Peiying Chua One important area of innovation in finance is the application of technologies such as machine learning, cloud computing and data...
27 Jul, 2021 A focus on foundational digital infrastructure in developing the digital economy - Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK By Peiying Chua To create a truly efficient and inclusive digital economy, people must be placed at the heart of innovation, by creating end-to-end...
27 Jul, 2021 Good things come in threes? The latest online harms updates in the UK By Linklaters After several months of heated public debate on the regulation of online harms in the UK, but very little in the way of substantive...
27 Jul, 2021 Banks and insurers in China to serve their customer “gods” with heart and soul By Linklaters In China we say “顾客就是上帝” (gù kè jiù shì shàng dì) or “the customer is the god”. Now the financial industry authorities want to remind...
26 Jul, 2021 High risk? Assessing the risk of call in by government under UK national security legislation By Linklaters On 20 July, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published a statement of use of the call in power (the Statement),...
20 Jul, 2021 A version 2.0 reboot?: the UK Government’s Digital Markets Unit proposals By Jonathan Ford Aoife Monaghan Today, an important milestone has been reached in the UK. The Government has published its long-awaited consultation (welcoming views...
16 Jul, 2021 TCPA class action dismissed based on SCOTUS' narrowed definition of ATDS By Kris Ekdahl In one of the first TCPA cases to be decided in the wake of the Supreme Court's 9-0 ruling in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, a U.S. federal...
15 Jul, 2021 Cooperation in digital regulation in the UK? By Rebecca Dickie The CMA, Ofcom, ICO and the FCA have agreed to work more closely together in respect of digital regulation through the Digital Regulation...
15 Jul, 2021 Tech sovereignty and national security By Linklaters Of the 17 sectors that are specifically identified as sensitive from a national security perspective under the UK National Security and...
15 Jul, 2021 Snap, crackle, pop: has the Chinatech bubble been burst or was it just the sound of my cereal? By Alex Roberts Last Saturday morning: what did you have for your breakfast? Chinese Cybersecurity Review Measures may not be the expected answer but, if...
09 Jul, 2021 Breakthrough in German challenge against UPC By Bolko Ehlgen Remember the Unified Patent Court? The project that would introduce a cross-border court system to allow enforcing patents across Europe?...
08 Jul, 2021 The empire strikes back: Foreign investment in semi-conductors, the next frontier in the battle for tech sovereignty By Linklaters The UK Prime Minister today announced a security review of the acquisition by China backed Nexperia of the UK's largest silicon wafer...
08 Jul, 2021 Germany takes the lead in GAFA "gatekeeper" proceedings By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer The German Federal Cartel Office kept its word. Following the entry into force of the latest German Competition Law Reform in January...
07 Jul, 2021 UK regulators are serious about D&I (and you should be too) By Elizabeth Dowd The FCA, PRA and BoE have published a discussion paper on their plan to improve diversity and inclusion in regulated firms. Although the...
02 Jul, 2021 If you’ve got no ID, you ain’t getting in! By Alex Roberts Long-awaited identification guide for key data to be released for comment soon What's the context? The PRC Data Security Law will come...