Aug 02, 2024 UK regulators keen to understand the future of digital wallets By Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard Rhea Dennis +1 more... Show less On 15 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Services Regulator (PSR) published a call for information (CFI) on...
Nov 27, 2023 Cryptoasset regulation: UK regulators give the industry a further glimpse of the future By Cyrus Pocha Noah Schmidt Christopher Bernard On 30 October 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) published three documents setting out how the UK government plans to regulate cryptoassets going...
Jun 30, 2021 City Week 2021: financial crime – the latest regulatory and enforcement trends By Christopher Robinson On day 2 of this year’s virtual City Week event, I was joined by investigators and regulators to discuss the latest developments in...
Oct 28, 2019 What should global employers expect from the new EU Commission? By Jean-Francois Gerard The start of the new EU Commission might be delayed but the Commissioner-designate for Jobs, Mr. Nicolas Schmit (a Member of European...
Feb 01, 2019 The UK updates penalties for breaches of the EU Blocking Statute By Tahleel Lateef A new UK law[1] enters into force today making it a criminal offence to breach the so-called ‘EU Blocking Statute’[2] in relation to...
Feb 01, 2019 EU agrees on a set of new rules to improve work-life balance By Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer On 24 January 2019, the Romanian Presidency of the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on key aspects of...
Jan 23, 2019 Has McDonald's "BIG MAC" brand not been genuinely used? It's all about the (quality of) evidence… By Lutz Riede Laura Adriana Grinschgl The new year had barely started when EUIPO released a decision that has left many commentators baffled: On the 11th of January 2019 the...
Dec 14, 2018 EU General Court holds that “pay-for-delay” patent settlements can be illegal agreements but annuls abuse of dominance finding By Joanna Goyder The General Court has partially annulled a Commission fining decision concerning patent settlements entered into by Servier and five...
Dec 14, 2018 EU state aid policy – a decade of development since the financial crisis By Merit Olthoff Alfredos Theodorakopoulos 10 years ago the world’s economy and financial markets were shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The EU faced the most serious...
Oct 18, 2018 Should the European Commission re-consider its state aid investigation into the UK’s CFC rules? By Paul Davison Helen Buchanan James Aitken As many potentially-affected UK multinationals are well aware, there is an ongoing EU state aid investigation into the UK’s controlled...
Jul 10, 2018 DAC 6: Corporates and advisers grapple with new EU tax disclosure requirements By Brin Rajathurai New EU rules which purport to clamp down on “aggressive tax planning” are set to impose a huge compliance burden on taxpayers and their...
May 18, 2018 “2018 is not 1985” – the Commission’s review of the Product Liability Directive By Andrew Austin The products that we use have changed a lot since the Product Liability Directive (85/374/EEC) (the PLD) was adopted in July 1985. That...