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A&O Shearman

Zooming in on AI - #5: AI under financial regulations in the U.S., EU and U.K. – a comparative assessment of the current state of...

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Rapid and accelerating developments in artificial intelligence have prompted governments around the world to consider how AI should be regulated and used responsibly by businesses, without stifling innovation. This is...more

Mayer Brown

Labour's Plans for Financial Services Regulation: What We Know

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Labour have won the general election, with a landslide victory of 412 seats. We address the question for financial services firms: what are their regulatory plans for financial services? Although their election manifesto was...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 23: Regulatory Tech Innovation Accelerating Around the Globe: Nick Cook Describes Trends

Nick Cook joins RegFi cohosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt for a conversation about how regulators globally are approaching technological innovation, both in the markets they supervise and within their own operations....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Fund Tokenization: A Greenlight and Blueprint for Implementation

On 24 November 2023, the industry-led Technology Working Group of HM Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce (Group) released an interim report (Report) outlining a strategic blueprint for the implementation of fund...more

Ius Laboris

Your pension and AI

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With innovation on the government’s agenda and across the financial services sector, is AI set to transform how pension schemes are run? The regulatory framework for AI is still at early stages, with the UK’s ‘pro-innovation’...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

FCA Publishes Report on Implementing Technology Change

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its findings on an extensive review into the factors which determine failure or success when implementing technology change in the financial services sector....more

A&O Shearman

UK Law Commission Announces Projects on Accommodating Smart Contracts and Digital Assets into English Law

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The U.K. Law Commission has announced two new projects designed to ensure that English law is able to accommodate smart contracts and digital assets....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

U.S. Financial Industry Developments - FINRA Requests Comment on Financial Technology Innovation in the Broker-Dealer Industry - On July 30, 2018, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") published a...more

Hogan Lovells

10 Practical tips for a smooth FCA application process

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The road to FCA authorisation can sometimes seem a long one, but take in some of our top tips for FinTechs travelling this road for the first time to help smooth the ride....more

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P2P platforms and the SME finance industry: where do we go from here?

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Looking back at the major changes since his last report 5 years ago, Andy Davis concluded on Monday evening that P2P platforms have "changed the game for small businesses, investors and regulators" in the UK, as he launched...more

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Stepping stones to creating Industry Sandboxes

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The report Industry Sandboxes: A development in Open Collaboration published today is itself the product of industry-wide collaboration – initiated by an invitation from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to Innovate...more

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Planning ahead: the FCA's 2017/18 Business Plan priorities and strategic framework

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The FCA's latest Business Plan demonstrates a commitment to pushing forward on both existing and new initiatives across sectors, focused on maintaining fair consumer outcomes in the rapidly changing UK financial services...more

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RegTech: an Invisibility Cloak for Regulation?

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Moving onto the second day of the Innovate Finance Global Summit 2017, Hogan Lovells hosted a roundtable focussed on Making Regulation Invisible: Using RegTech to Embed Rules into Workflow. A full house reinforced the nirvana...more

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Building FinTech castles in the sand: insights on collaboration innovation

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Sandboxes featured as a common refrain at the Innovate Finance Global Summit 2017, cropping up as routes to success in FinTech innovation in various guises. Innovate Finance and MIT Connection Science joined forces to lead a...more

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