17 Jan, 2025 Payments in 2025 #5 – AI in payments By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less The payments industry has a strong track record of using AI to help spot and stop fraud. Now, as they explore other opportunities to...
16 Jan, 2025 DORA deadline day arrives: Here are five things firms still need to do By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy Even as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act comes into effect, more work remains to be done. After a two-year implementation...
16 Jan, 2025 Payments in 2025 #4 – Future of retail payments By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less Policymakers in the EU and UK are, for now, allowing a diverse landscape of payment options to co-exist and compete. Instant payments The...
15 Jan, 2025 Payments in 2025 #3 – Payment services By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less More regulatory change is on the horizon for payment services. The detail of key reforms to EU and UK payment services legislation will...
14 Jan, 2025 Payments in 2025 #2 – Safeguarding By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less Later this year the Financial Conduct Authority will determine its approach to changing the safeguarding regime for payments firms....
13 Jan, 2025 Payments in 2025 #1 – Operational resilience By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less Operational resilience rules will start to be enforced in the EU and UK this year. Payments firms can anticipate more scrutiny about...
10 Jan, 2025 Insurance and Pensions Regulation: 25 for 2025 By Alastair Holt Jimi Piggott-Bader Premlata Fagan Clare McMullen +1 more... Show less The UK government capped off 2024 with a call to its main regulators – including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – asking for ideas...
18 Dec, 2024 EU says good-quality DORA registers are within reach By Raza Naeem James Morris Frances Hodgkins Simon Treacy +1 more... Show less Earlier this year around 1,000 firms took part in a “dry-run” to test the process for reporting registers under the EU’s Digital...
12 Dec, 2024 Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2025 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2025 report explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset...
05 Dec, 2024 Design of EU open finance rules set to move to next stage By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The EU plans to require financial services firms to open up the data they hold for customers. Last year the European Commission proposed...
02 Dec, 2024 EU finalises DORA register rules By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The European Commission has adopted implementing technical standards on the register of information under the EU’s Digital Operational...
29 Nov, 2024 ESAs set timetable for DORA register By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy As firms race to comply with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act, the European Supervisory Authorities have clarified their...
05 Nov, 2024 Greenwashing Conference: Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Approaches By Victoria Hickman Raza Naeem Peter Bevan Harry Eddis Elizabeth Dowd Nikunj Kiri Martyn Hopper Clare McMullen James Morris Alastair Holt +7 more... Show less A reminder about the “Greenwashing Outlook” conference that Linklaters and AFME are hosting imminently. We look forward to seeing many of...
24 Oct, 2024 Joint AFME and Linklaters implementation guide on MiFIR / MiFID II Reforms in the EU and the UK By Raza Naeem Karen Cooper Peter Bevan Harry Eddis Stephen Clipsham +2 more... Show less The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and Linklaters have published an implementation guide to help EU and UK firms...
12 Oct, 2024 ECJ ruling simplifies intra-group reorganisations of regulated banks By Marius Raetz Julian Emmerich When directly or indirectly acquiring 10% or more of the voting rights or capital of a credit institution, potential acquirers must...
30 Jul, 2024 The missing DORA technical standard on subcontracting is found By Harry Eddis Raza Naeem James Morris Olivia Murphy +1 more... Show less The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have finalised their much-anticipated technical standard on subcontracting ICT services...