The UK Government has saddled up to bring order to what it terms the “wild-west” of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). For years, BNPL has...
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On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
Open banking promises to unlock innovation and empower customers by enabling financial information to be shared between traditional banks...
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On 17 March 2025, the UK Government published a policy paper and accompanying press release outlining a new approach to ensure regulators...
On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Dear CEO letter to payments firms that are supervised by the...
As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team....
On 16 December 2024 the FCA published its much-anticipated Discussion Paper on (i) cryptoasset admissions and disclosures and (ii) the...
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The concept of ‘reverse solicitation’ marks the outer limit of the circumstances under which non-EU market participants can operate...
Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
AI is a topic that is both new and old. Financial services firms have been grappling with the capabilities of AI and its use cases for...
On 17 October 2024, HM Treasury launched its third consultation on the proposed regulation of Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) credit...
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How the newly unveiled structure could deliver Europe’s next 5-year political ambitions The wait, at least for now, is finally over....