8/21/2025 8:42:25 AM Agentic payments: what are they, what are the legal risks and what’s next? By Richard Hay Sam Quicke Julian Cunningham-Day The rise of AI is changing the landscape of payments. One notable way in which this is evident is through the introduction of “agentic...
8/18/2025 1:51:37 PM UK’s HMRC ordered to provide details regarding use of AI in tax decision-making By Alex Fawke Freddie Shanagher Tom Cassels Jonathan Jones Jessica Radke +2 more... Show less Two and a half years ago, while people were still hearing about ChatGPT for the first time, we were considering whether automated...
8/18/2025 12:55:15 PM MAS issues Revised Guidelines for Digital Payment Token Service Providers By Peiying Chua Heikes Evan Lam The Monetary Authority of Singapore has revised its Guidelines on the Provision of Consumer Protection Safeguards by Digital Payment...
8/18/2025 9:50:25 AM Asia Fintech and Payments Regulatory Update: August 2025 By Peiying Chua Heikes Alex Roberts Sutthipong Koohasaneh Kishore Bhindi Gabriella Savastano +2 more... Show less We are delighted to publish our latest Asia Fintech and Payments regulatory update, a horizon scan of regulatory highlights across the...
8/15/2025 12:53:07 PM APAC Privacy Regulators Approve APPA Anonymisation Guide: Key Takeaways and How It Differs from the European Approach By Yang Fan Sher Hann Chua Jia-Yi Tay On 31 July 2025, the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner (“PCPD”) together with seven privacy authorities from Australia (Victoria), Canada...
8/14/2025 9:06:28 AM Hong Kong launches new stablecoin regime By Kishore Bhindi I-Ping Soong Natalie Lam The Stablecoins Ordinance (Cap. 656) came into effect on 1 August 2025, making Hong Kong one of the first jurisdictions globally to...
8/7/2025 11:26:05 AM FCA confirms tougher safeguarding rules for payments and e-money but delays longer-term reform By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Olivia Murphy Frances Hodgkins Arjun Lakhani Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less Payments firms must safeguard the funds they receive in connection with making payments or issuing e-money. The Financial Conduct...
8/6/2025 3:42:08 PM Key takeaways from the 2025 Video Game Law Summit in Shanghai By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Ruoyi Lu Ria Moody Patrick O'Connell +2 more... Show less We were delighted to attend the 2025 Video Game Law Summit in Shanghai. This event brings together legal professionals active in the...
8/6/2025 9:07:06 AM UK & EU Fintech and payments regulation update: August 2025 By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Simon Treacy Frances Hodgkins Arjun Lakhani Olivia Murphy +3 more... Show less In this monthly update, we summarise the latest legal and regulatory developments for firms in the payments sector. We also publish...
8/5/2025 10:10:15 AM EU AI Act General Purpose AI model rules now apply, with new Code of Practice designed to support compliance By Sonia Cissé Guillaume Couneson Ceyhun Pehlivan Julian Cunningham-Day Jennifer Calver Simon Treacy Elton Qemali +4 more... Show less As of 2 August 2025, several provisions of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act relating to General Purpose AI models now apply....
7/28/2025 9:19:17 AM White House’s AI Action Plan: Winning the race in a patchwork regulatory era By Joshua Ashley Klayman Jeffrey Cohen Ieuan Jolly Shruti Chopra Caitlin Potratz Metcalf Toby Irenshtain +3 more... Show less On July 23, 2025, the White House published Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan, a comprehensive effort aimed to solidify...
7/28/2025 9:16:47 AM History is made: U.S. Crypto Week sees Trump sign GENIUS Act into law, House advances two other key bills for digital assets By Joshua Ashley Klayman Jeffrey Cohen David Lucking Zila Acosta Grimes Tanin Kazemi Nina Zegarra-Schmidt +3 more... Show less On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins),...
7/28/2025 9:15:19 AM Guide to the UK's critical third party regime re services provided to the financial sector By Peter Bevan Raza Naeem Harry Eddis Julian Cunningham-Day Simon Treacy Victoria McGowan +3 more... Show less The UK’s critical third party regime came into force on 1 January 2025. The CTP regime enables the Government to designate entities -...
7/22/2025 5:17:50 PM The countdown begins: FMIs given one year to put fundamental rules into practice By James Morris Simon Treacy The Bank of England has finalised its Fundamental Rules for financial market infrastructure. Having originally proposed a six-month...
7/21/2025 1:16:39 PM The Consumer Duty and BNPL – uncomfortable accommodation or a meeting of minds? By Sara Cody Earlier this year the Government laid legislation before Parliament to bring more BNPL agreements into the scope of UK regulation (see:...
7/21/2025 9:48:10 AM Balancing transparency and confidentiality: U.S. court shields Google’s EC settlement documents from disclosure By William Leslie John Eichlin Laura Pinilla Mario Sáenz +1 more... Show less Global competition investigations and litigation raise a myriad of challenges: a lesser commented one is protecting the benefits of...