Digital TMT and Sourcing Notes

New recommendations for reform and development of the law on digital assets

Crypto: is it gambling or a financial service?

The Law Commission digital assets consultation – a proposal for property rights reform

Accelerating digitisation of UK financial services: Bank of England and HMT announce CBDB Taskforce amid new plans

The Kalifa Review – a vision for the future of UK FinTech

FCA technology change management review: Top tips for avoiding operational disruption

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

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 …

New Mirai based malware variants – BrickerBot and a Bitcoin miner

The Mirai malware gained its infamy in October 2016 following its record breaking attack on systems operated by domain name system provider Dyn, using …

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 …