24 Apr, 2024 From PSD2 to PSD3 and PSR – European Parliament sets out its vision on the future of payments By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn Jimena Gonzalez Alicia Hildner +2 more... Show less The payments landscape has undergone significant changes over the past decade, changes driven by fast-paced technological advancements...
26 Mar, 2024 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,...
19 Mar, 2024 Stocktake on UK DMCC Bill - entering the final stages By Cat Greenwood-Smith Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Kate Collister Martin Dickson Francesca Triggs Philipp Baschenhof Marc Robinson +5 more... Show less Last week the House of Lords Report stage concluded for the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill. As the Bill...
08 Mar, 2024 New Law on Greenwashing finally adopted – The EU Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
07 Mar, 2024 UK Government concludes its consultation on consumer information transparency and makes proposals to update the DMCC Bill By Andrew Austin Kate Collister In brief: The Department for Business & Trade (DBT) has recently published the Government’s outcomes from its consultation on ‘Smarter...
01 Mar, 2024 Text of the new EU Product Liability Directive is agreed – what happens next? By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin In brief: The text of the revised new EU Product Liability Directive (PLD) has now been agreed. After intense negotiations resulting in...
08 Jan, 2024 The Italian Annual Law on Competition: what’s new? By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Irene Indino +2 more... Show less The reform of Italian competition and consumer protection laws – which have already been significantly amended over the past two years –...
03 Jan, 2024 Mind the UK ‘advice gap’: Considering the Advice Guidance Boundary Review By Elisabeth Overland Christopher Bernard Billy Liu On 8 December 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) and the FCA published a joint policy paper (DP23/5) on the Advice Guidance Boundary Review (the...
08 Dec, 2023 Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
26 Oct, 2023 UK CMA proposes changes to the law concerning fake reviews, pricing, subscriptions and greenwashing By Andrew Austin Kate Collister Karishma Paun In brief: The flagship Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the DMCC Bill) is progressing through the Houses of Parliament...
29 Sep, 2023 Redress Action in Germany – the new kid on the block? By Moritz Becker Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Roman Mallmann Martin Mekat Michael Rohls Patrick Schroeder Elisabeth Weber Stefanie Fay Stephan Hofer Johanna Möller +7 more... Show less The German Federal Council (Bundesrat) has finally cleared the path for the German implementation of the European Representative...
21 Sep, 2023 Will the UK follow the EU’s lead in reforming product liability rules? By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin Emma Franck-Gwinnell In summary: We recently wrote about the UK Government’s wide-ranging consultation on reforming the UK consumer product safety framework...