10/29/2025 10:11:53 AM Europe 2.0 – Competitive and Autonomous: Key Insights from the CEE Finance Workshop By Victoria Bazil Florian Klimscha Stephan Pachinger Anouschka Zagorski Eva Schneider Maximilian Hohenauer Maximilian Ihra +4 more... Show less On 23 October 2025, the Freshfields Vienna team welcomed legal experts and financial leaders to its Vienna office for its 17th annual CEE...
10/21/2025 8:58:30 AM Tokenising the future: FCA consults on progressing fund tokenisation By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Julia Robilliard-Smith Holly Alexander +1 more... Show less On 14 October 2025, the FCA published a consultation paper (CP25/28) setting out its proposals to facilitate the adoption of tokenisation...
10/15/2025 2:04:25 PM Beyond the Employment Rights Bill - Fair Work Agency takes shape: Matthew Taylor appointed as chair ahead of 2026 launch By David Mendel Emily Rigler Gillingham Karishma Paun Zak Mohamed +1 more... Show less The UK government has appointed Matthew Taylor as the chair of the new Fair Work Agency (FWA), a body launching in April 2026 to oversee...
10/13/2025 12:38:47 PM UK medical devices regulation – where are we now? By Andrew Austin Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy Kyu-Won Kim Braun Scott +2 more... Show less As anticipated, 2025 has proven to be a critical year in the UK’s journey towards a new medical devices regulatory regime post-Brexit...
10/3/2025 9:04:12 AM Novel UK High Court claim against Amazon for a product sold via an online marketplace settles By Andrew Austin James Raeside Kristina Weiler Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy Alexandra Yang +3 more... Show less A claim which was launched against an online marketplace in August in the English High Court had the potential to test the boundaries of...
9/30/2025 2:14:16 PM Reshaping UK payments regulation: HM Treasury consults on consolidating the PSR within the FCA By Michael Raffan Noah Schmidt Holly Alexander The UK's payments landscape is on the cusp of significant regulatory change. In March 2025, the UK government announced that it would...
9/26/2025 3:12:34 PM FCA invites discussion on applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation and discussion paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for...
9/26/2025 3:10:03 PM FCA publishes proposals for applying its Handbook to cryptoasset firms By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Noah Schmidt Robert Stevens +1 more... Show less The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper on 17 September 2025 outlining its proposals for applying the...
9/19/2025 9:49:33 AM What's next for UK product liability? By Andrew Austin Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy We recently wrote about the prospect of future reform of the UK product liability framework (here), which may see the UK’s product...
8/30/2025 7:14:56 PM EBA Publishes Final Draft RTS: A New Step Towards Harmonising Crypto Asset Exposures By Alexander Glos Holger Hartenfels Daniel Klingenbrunn On 5 August 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its final report on the draft regulatory technical standards (Draft RTS)...
8/22/2025 8:48:15 AM Road to CRD 6 – Good things come to those who wait – or do they? The German implementation of Article 21c By Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos Falko Glasow The long awaited and highly anticipated German draft act for the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/1619 (CRD 6) has finally been...
8/14/2025 4:53:31 PM Freshfields webinar—The UK government’s new financial services strategy: a catalyst for growth? By Martin McElwee Craig Dewar Gareth Davies Lloyd Rees Christopher Bernard +2 more... Show less On the evening of Tuesday 15 July 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered her second Mansion House speech, in...