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NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Nota Bene Episode 123: Europe Q2 Check In - Brexit Updates and Antitrust Laws in the Digital Economy with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 112: How Europe is Filling Enforcement Gaps for Digital Gatekeepers with Robert Klotz and Ciara Barbu-O’Connor
Nota Bene Episode 106: The Corporate Investor Movement Toward Environmental, Social, and Governmental Policies with Allison Troianos and Ariel Yehezkel
Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
Podcast: ESMA Report: Undue Pressure on Companies
Nota Bene Episode 65: European Check In: Environmental Protection, Privacy Regulations, Digital Market Definition, and Brexit with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 55: Updates on the European Commission and Brexit with Isabelle Rahman and Oliver Heinisch
Jones Day Talks: EU's New Foreign Direct Investment Regulations Eye Specific Sectors
The UK’s consultation on deregulating commercial agents could have knock-on impacts on payment services and create regulatory divergence from the EU....more
In April 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission (European Commission) announced that three meetings had been...more
Of particular note this week in the EU, the Council adopted the legislative package to strengthen market data transparency which includes changes to the EU’s trading rules on market data, payment for order flow and commodity...more
Antitrust and Competition - European Commission Approves Consolidation in the Ground Transportation Sector Subject to Remedies - The companies are two global suppliers of signalling systems for mainline and urban railway...more
As part of the European Commission’s 2020 Retail Payments Strategy and following its 2022 review of PSD2 and related consultations, it has published legislative proposals to improve the functioning of PSD2. The first is for a...more
Much is written about revolutionary developments in payments, but the reality of progress in such a complex area is that it is often evolutionary. Legislators, regulators, and industry have been working incrementally to...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: discussions over tightening crypto regulation in Europe and Asia; digital currency pilots in India and the U.S.; and UK Payment Systems Regulator looking into card...more
The European Commission has published three consultations on the revised EU Payment Services Directive and on open finance. The results of the consultations will help inform the Commission's review of PSD2 and proposed...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Stop Press: The international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 includes a number of significant economic sanctions measures. See our latest...more
Of particular note this week, HM Treasury published a policy paper on ‘Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing’ which sets out the UK government’s ambition to support the financial services sector to align with...more
Strategic trends - Pay.UK report and Knowledge Hub Pay.UK has announced the publication of a report exploring the key trends that are shaping the future of retail payments. ...more
We end 2020 with a heavy dose of antitrust/competition stories (which is a theme likely to continue into 2021), including updates from Russia, Croatia and the European Union. Those of you with properties in those markets may...more
In March we wrote that the European Commission (the “Commission”) had published its study on the application of the Interchange Fee Regulation (Regulation 2015/751 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions, the...more
Funding no-blame APP scams: PSR considers options - The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published slides and speaker notes of Chris Hemsley, PSR Managing Director, for a call on authorised push payment (APP) scams,...more
The FCA has published a series of measures and regulatory guidance on how financial services firms should deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In our previous client notes, “Planning in a Time of Pandemic:...more
After trilogue negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Commission, the European Council has now approved the amendments made to the Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 on Cross-Border Payments (the “CBP...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Commission's second annual review of the Privacy Shield and the Department of Commerce's guidance on how to comply with the Privacy Shield...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Delegated Regulation supplements the revised Payment Services Directive with Regulatory Technical Standards for strong...more
The FCA and PRA announced changes to enforcement process with the aim of strengthening the transparency and effectiveness of enforcement decision-making processes. Some of the changes have already come into force, the rest...more
The first Payment Services Directive (PSD1) was proposed by the European Commission in 2005, and adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2007. ...more