1/26/2026 2:17:49 PM Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2026 By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Julia Robilliard-Smith Laura Hibbert +1 more... Show less We have once again canvassed opinions from our Freshfields global fintech team for the year ahead, as we did in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024...
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...
12/2/2024 3:50:58 PM Regulating cryptoassets in the UK: a guide to the road ahead By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
9/3/2024 3:26:26 PM Herding cats: English law and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations By Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Joana Fragata Background On 11 July 2024, the Law Commission published a scoping paper (the Scoping Paper) on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations...
5/3/2024 12:05:14 PM The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
11/27/2023 3:21:22 PM 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...
12/20/2022 2:06:28 PM UK digital assets disputes in 2022 and what to expect in 2023 By Simon Orton Thomas Clark Emma Probyn George Ho +1 more... Show less 2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a...
12/3/2021 10:21:05 AM Repairing a Duchess’s heart – the Court of Appeal confirms that the press should not have published the Duchess of Sussex’s private letter By Harriet Ohemeng Dr. Christopher Stothers In February 2019, The Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline website published articles relying heavily on a letter sent by the Duchess of...
4/23/2021 7:59:43 AM UK Jurisdiction Taskforce publishes groundbreaking Digital Dispute Resolution Rules By Roopa Mathews On 22 April 2021 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, published its Digital Dispute...
3/8/2021 11:38:06 AM Success against the press! …but is the Duchess of Sussex the sole author of the letter to her father for copyright purposes? What would Oprah say? By Dr. Christopher Stothers Harriet Ohemeng In 2019, the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline published extracts of a handwritten letter from the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle to her...