Digital TMT and Sourcing Notes

FCA review of outsourcing by life insurers

The FCA publishes proposals to ban sale of crypto-derivatives to retain consumers

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

New Government Outsourcing Playbook

Time to Mobilise: EBA finalises Guidelines on Outsourcing Arrangements

Following consultation in the second half of 2018, the European Banking Authority ("EBA") published its Final Report on Draft Guidelines on Outsourcing …

Digital TMT and Sourcing Predictions 2019

  2018 was a landmark year for digital TMT and sourcing. Against the backdrop of the UK's impending departure from the EU, there were a wealth of …

Fintechs: the golden ticket to innovation?

If the level of capital flowing into the financial technology sector is any indication, the growth in number and size of financial technology start-ups …

Sourcing in the Digital Age - Shaped by Disruption

Many people believe that we are currently witnessing a fourth industrial or technological revolution, with the advent and increasing use of a wave of …

Outsourcing to the Cloud: EBA issues Final Report on Recommendations

On 20 December 2017 the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published its Final Report: Recommendations on Outsourcing to Cloud Service Providers …

Public Sector IT Procurement Update: UK Government publishes updated Model Services Contract, guidance on GDPR re-papering and extends “G-Cloud 9” framework for cloud services procurement

Model Services Contract: On 1 January 2018, the Cabinet Office, Crown Commercial Service ("CCS") and the Government Legal Service ("GLS") published an …

EBA publishes guidance on (i) outsourcing to cloud service providers and (ii) ICT Risk Assessment by competent authorities

On 18 May 2017, the European Banking Authority ("EBA") published its draft recommendations on outsourcing to cloud service providers (the "EBA …

FinTech: Bank of England launches FinTech community and FCA publishes discussion paper of distributed ledger technology

In March 2017, the Bank of England FinTech Accelerator launched a new fintech community. The new community has three main objectives: to share …