Feb 02, 2023 Cryptoassets: the next chapter By Emily Bradley Yesterday, HM Treasury published its much anticipated vision for the future of the financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets....
Feb 01, 2023 Crypto: Promo Go Slow (Part 2) By Tim Fosh Just a week after the FCA's review of AML registration applications by crypto firms, we've now got two important publications from the UK...
Feb 01, 2023 Crypto-ing the line By Tim Fosh Back at the very beginning of 2020 Covid-19 still hadn't been designated a pandemic, Brexit still wasn't quite 'done' and you could start...
Jan 31, 2023 To borrow or not to borrow: key considerations for “venture debt” deals By James Cook Phoebe McGibbon Callum Morganti If you are a tech start-up, or your organisation invests in or helps develop them, you will have seen market speculation that 2023 is...
Jan 26, 2023 CJEU says Amazon may be liable for trade mark infringement for sale of counterfeit Louboutins By Richard Barker Richard McDonnell The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has held that online sales websites like Amazon that operate a “hybrid” business...
Jan 26, 2023 ICO tech report highlights privacy challenges for four key technologies By Natalie Donovan The ICO is encouraging developers to consider privacy at an early stage when implementing new technologies and, in its first annual...
Jan 20, 2023 New app store Code of Practice By Jack Higgins In December last year, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a new ‘first of its kind’ code of practice...
Jan 20, 2023 Accountability and technology: imagining the future of the SM&CR By Emily Bradley The Senior Managers and Certification Regime or 'SM&CR', a regulatory lever which seeks to foster greater individual accountability...
Jan 19, 2023 HMT Review of Payment Services Regulations: is this the beginning of a tectonic shift in the regulatory bedrock? By Jordan Emery Ten years ago, the thought of your phone scanning your face before you pay for your morning coffee may have been a disturbing one. Five...
Jan 10, 2023 Halt! House of Lords minutes indicate proposed new TDM exception to be shelved By Richard Barker Minutes of a recent meeting of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee suggest that the UK government is halting its...
Dec 20, 2022 Government pushes ahead with plans to strengthen UK’s cyber resilience and regulate more IT services By Natalie Donovan Protecting critical services and infrastructure from cyber incidents is a key priority for legislators on both sides of the channel. We...
Dec 08, 2022 UK Government Scraps Controversial Proposals to Tackle Legal but Harmful Content Online By Catherine O'Callaghan The UK government has confirmed that it is abandoning controversial provisions in its Online Safety Bill to make tech firms take down...
Dec 06, 2022 Fundraising during rockier times – key takeaways By James Cook During a recent panel session moderated by Slaughter and May for late-stage UK start-ups, titled ‘Fundraising during rockier times’, we...
Nov 29, 2022 EU expands scope of its cyber rules as NIS 2 agreed By Charles MacRae The EU has agreed changes to its cybersecurity rules. On 22 November 2022, the “NIS 2 Directive” received approval from the European...
Nov 24, 2022 ICO warns immature biometric technologies could discriminate, and organisations may be investigated By Natalie Donovan The ICO has warned organisations to carefully assess the risks if considering using emotion analysis technologies as they will be...
Nov 23, 2022 The proof is in the (crypto) pudding: is Proof of Reserves a solution to crypto’s trust problem? By Elizabeth Huang In any normal week, reports that nearly half a billion dollars in cryptoassets had been stolen from a cryptocurrency exchange would be...