Fintech Notes

Fintech market enters a new stage of maturity

Fintech is gearing up, shifting away from the start-up world to mature big ticket transactions. Richard Woods, Clive Cunningham and Wendy Saunders of …

Global report on M&A in 2020

We have published our latest global M&A report in which we look at the themes that we expect to see in M&A transactions in 2020. In the report we …

New European Banking Authority guidelines offer catalyst for change to outsourcing arrangements

FINTECH REGULATION – WHAT'S COMING UP?

With fintech being a rapidly developing and increasingly regulated area, we have created a timeline of key UK and EU regulatory milestones to watch out …

Fintech regulation - what is in the pipeline?

Fintech regulation - what to expect

With increasing regulation in the fintech space, we have created a timeline of key UK and EU regulatory milestones to expect over the coming …

Bridging the FinTech gap: What dividend should we seek from regulatory cooperation across jurisdictions?

Technology-facilitated innovation in financial services, a diverse collection of topics which coalesces under the portmanteau term of "FinTech", is …

Further developments in Distributed Ledger Technology

On 15 December 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the Feedback Statement (FS) to its April 2017 Discussion Paper (DP) DP17/03 on …

Fintech regulation - what is on the horizon?

With fintech becoming such a fast-moving and increasingly regulated space, we have created a timeline of key UK and EU regulatory milestones to watch out …

Scaling up the Senior Managers and Certification Regime: Thinking Ahead

The UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) is being extended to almost all financial services firms authorised by the FCA. This will include …

Regulators around the world become more vocal regarding the potential risks associated with ICOs

On 4 September 2017, seven major regulators governing the finance and technology sectors in China (collectively, the Chinese Regulators), jointly …

Fintechs and Regulators adapt to each other

Companies specialising in internet and new technologies (so-called Fintechs) continue to play a key role in the French economy (for example in developing …