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...
8/1/2025 3:27:38 PM The end of the road for a UK Green Taxonomy By Douglas Bryden Emily Smith Fran Kaehr On 15 July 2025, the government confirmed that it will not proceed with a UK Green Taxonomy (the UK Taxonomy), marking the end of a...
8/1/2025 8:54:16 AM Omnibus in Action: What it means for corporations in Germany and Italy By Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Umberto Parmigiani Cristina Hajek Gross +1 more... Show less The European Union’s (EU) approach to corporate sustainability regulation has entered a period of profound reassessment. In response to...
7/28/2025 7:26:00 AM The DPC Frontier: FCA Charges Ahead on Regulating Buy Now, Pay Later By Claire Harrop Cyrus Pocha Tricia Moffat In our previous blog post (here) on Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), we examined the UK Government’s proposals to bring interest-free BNPL...
7/22/2025 4:57:54 PM The UK’s Product Regulation and Metrology Act enters into force By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Harriet Hanks Laura Feldman Braun Scott +2 more... Show less The UK’s Product Regulation and Metrology Act (the Act) received Royal Assent on 21 July 2025, with the majority of the Act coming into...
7/22/2025 2:57:17 PM Turning the tide: 5 key takeaways for companies and investors on Cunliffe’s proposed reforms for the water sector in England & Wales By James Aitken Susannah Prichard Nick English Anup Nandra Kritika Rampal Quentin Wu Joschka Nakata +4 more... Show less After months of intense scrutiny and stakeholder engagement, the Independent Water Commission (the Commission), set up by the UK...
7/14/2025 8:10:30 AM European Commission gives informal guidance on port equipment sustainability agreement and automotive licensing negotiation group By Dominic Divivier Tobias Klose Thomas Lübbig Corin Gittinger Joanna Goyder +2 more... Show less The European Commission has given informal guidance to two groups of competitors who are collaborating to achieve EU sustainability and...
7/10/2025 10:28:13 AM E-money and payment firms face FCA scrutiny over risk management and wind-down planning By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Tricia Moffat On 20 June 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its findings following a multi-firm review into risk management and...
7/3/2025 10:23:30 AM Green Goals, Red Tape: Aarhus Convention’s Impact on EU State aid procedure By Onno Brouwer Andreas von Bonin Florian Reiter-Werzin Conor Leavy Isabel Chaves +2 more... Show less In May 2025, the European Commission (EC) amended the State aid rules to ensure compliance with the European Union’s (EU) obligations...
7/2/2025 5:35:32 PM Council adopts position on PSD3 and PSR – key take-aways By Alexander Glos Alicia Hildner Jimena Gonzalez Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn +2 more... Show less On 18 June 2025, the Council of the European Union formally approved its negotiating mandates on the legislative proposals relating to...