12/8/2025 9:47:42 AM A decade of enforcement: Hong Kong's competition landscape in 2025 By Ninette Dodoo Tim Mak Ziqi Zhou A summary of the seminar jointly hosted by Freshfields and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. On 6 November 2025, Rasul Butt,...
12/4/2025 5:02:56 PM Malacalza vs. ECB - On the liability of the European Central Bank for the exercise of its prudential supervisory functions By Janina Heinz Philip Denninger Daniel Klingenbrunn For many years, the stability of the financial sector has formed a paramount public interest, being the underlying reason for...
12/2/2025 1:20:43 PM From EU legacy to UK innovation: FCA consults on short selling changes By Chris Ranson James Smethurst Christopher Bernard The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Consultation Paper CP25/29 setting out proposed rules and guidance to implement the...
12/1/2025 10:30:30 AM Shaping Asia’s Infrastructure: Unlocking Central Asia’s solar potential - Liberalising trends in solar development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan By Ciara Watkins Morgane Guyonnet Kim Rosenberg Robert Colvin +1 more... Show less With over one million square kilometres of steppe and desert landscape and up to three thousand hours of sunlight per year, Central Asia...
11/20/2025 2:05:48 PM A cautious step forward: the Bank of England’s proposed regime for systemic stablecoins By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Sophia Doan Noah Schmidt +1 more... Show less The Bank of England has published its long-awaited consultation paper on a regulatory framework for sterling-denominated systemic...
11/20/2025 10:30:52 AM CMA steps up enforcement relating to online pricing practices By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Kate Collister This week, following the publication of its final price transparency guidance, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a...
11/20/2025 9:24:02 AM Turning regulatory clarity into a competitive edge: insights from the DRCF’s AI & Digital Hub Report By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Sophia Doan The Digital Regulation Co-operation Forum (DRCF) brings together the UK’s four key digital regulators – the Financial Conduct Authority...
11/12/2025 11:12:35 AM Product Risks Today: Germany’s approach for a new Product Safety Act By Laura Knoke Moritz Becker Anita Bell Rixa Kuhmann +1 more... Show less The German government has introduced a draft bill to update its national Product Safety Act (Produktsicherheitsgesetz – ProdSG).[1] This...
10/21/2025 8:58:30 AM Tokenising the future: FCA consults on progressing fund tokenisation By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Julia Robilliard-Smith Holly Alexander +1 more... Show less On 14 October 2025, the FCA published a consultation paper (CP25/28) setting out its proposals to facilitate the adoption of tokenisation...
10/15/2025 2:04:25 PM Beyond the Employment Rights Bill - Fair Work Agency takes shape: Matthew Taylor appointed as chair ahead of 2026 launch By David Mendel Emily Rigler Gillingham Karishma Paun Zak Mohamed +1 more... Show less The UK government has appointed Matthew Taylor as the chair of the new Fair Work Agency (FWA), a body launching in April 2026 to oversee...
10/13/2025 12:38:47 PM UK medical devices regulation – where are we now? By Andrew Austin Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy Kyu-Won Kim Braun Scott +2 more... Show less As anticipated, 2025 has proven to be a critical year in the UK’s journey towards a new medical devices regulatory regime post-Brexit...
10/3/2025 9:04:12 AM Novel UK High Court claim against Amazon for a product sold via an online marketplace settles By Andrew Austin James Raeside Kristina Weiler Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy Alexandra Yang +3 more... Show less A claim which was launched against an online marketplace in August in the English High Court had the potential to test the boundaries of...
9/30/2025 2:14:16 PM Reshaping UK payments regulation: HM Treasury consults on consolidating the PSR within the FCA By Michael Raffan Noah Schmidt Holly Alexander The UK's payments landscape is on the cusp of significant regulatory change. In March 2025, the UK government announced that it would...
9/19/2025 9:49:33 AM What's next for UK product liability? By Andrew Austin Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy We recently wrote about the prospect of future reform of the UK product liability framework (here), which may see the UK’s product...
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)...
8/22/2025 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...