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)...
8/28/2025 8:17:43 PM Road to CRD: What’s Changing for Fit and Proper Requirements and Board Governance in Germany? By Janina Heinz Alicia Hildner Jan Struckmann Falko Glasow +1 more... Show less Road to CRD 6 – What’s Changing for Fit and Proper Requirements and Board Governance in Germany? After much anticipation, the German...
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...
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...
7/17/2025 2:55:08 PM The UK government’s new financial services strategy: a catalyst for growth? By Michael Raffan Emma Rachmaninov James Smethurst Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard +3 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...
7/15/2025 3:27:40 PM UK Government and regulators announce reforms to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime By David Mendel Amy Rentell Emily Smith In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (the PRA) published a joint discussion paper...
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...
7/2/2025 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...
7/1/2025 9:33:24 PM A Political Breakthrough: EU reaches deal on bank resolution framework By Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Background On June 25, 2025, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached at political agreement to reform the...
7/1/2025 12:34:24 PM Closing the advice gap: FCA consults on detailed proposals for targeted support By James Smethurst Elisabeth Overland Shuke Wen Phoebe Campbell +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper (CP25/17) on 30 June 2025 setting out its detailed proposals for...
6/23/2025 3:19:34 PM How (not) to regulate for growth: House of Lords committee report on the UK regulators’ secondary international competitiveness and growth objective By Cyrus Pocha Emily Smith Fran Kaehr On 13 June 2025, the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee (the Committee) published its report on the secondary...