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UK FCA sets out key expectations of payments firms in “Dear CEO” letter

On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Dear CEO letter to payments firms that are supervised by the FCA (including payment institutions and e-money institutions), s...

Author(s): Claire Harrop, Janice Leung, Christy Lee

  • client assets
  • consumer protection
  • fca
  • financial institutions
  • fintech
  • uk
  • financial crime
  • financial services
  • the financial conduct authority

Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025

As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team. Here, we identify common themes in 2025 across different jurisdict...

Author(s): Cyrus Pocha, Claire Harrop, David Sewell, Emma Probyn, Rikki Haria, Daphne van der Houwen, Christine Simpson, Eva Schneider, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Nariné Atamian, Tristan Lockwood, Noah Schmidt

  • cryptocurrency
  • ai
  • data
  • financial services
  • fintech
  • bnpl
  • aml
  • payments
  • financial crime

Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025

As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team. Here, we identify common themes in 2025 across different jurisdict...

Author(s): Cyrus Pocha, Claire Harrop, David Sewell, Emma Probyn, Rikki Haria, Daphne van der Houwen, Christine Simpson, Eva Schneider, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Nariné Atamian, Tristan Lockwood, Noah Schmidt

  • ai
  • aml
  • bnpl
  • cryptocurrency
  • data
  • financial crime
  • financial services
  • fintech
  • payments
  • political change
  • us
  • uk
  • europe

Financial rewards for whistleblowers in the UK - the calls for reform grow louder

The drumbeat of calls for the UK to introduce a programme of whistleblower incentivisation continues to grow louder.  In our view, a programme of some kind, if only on a pilot basis to begin with, is ...

Author(s): Ben Morgan, Holly Insley, Alice Brindle, Caroline Doherty de Novoa

  • corporate crime
  • corporate governance
  • whistleblowing
  • financial crime
  • governance

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