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The payments landscape has undergone significant changes over the past decade, changes driven by fast-paced technological advancements and evolving consumer behaviours. In response to this dynamic evo...
Author(s): Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Eva Schneider, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Jimena Gonzalez, Alicia Hildner
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its first substantive decision on human rights aspects of climate change in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...
Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Moritz Becker, Patrick Schroeder, Carsten Wendler, Jan Henning Buschfeld, Stefanie Spancken-Monz, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Domen Tursic
Freshfields sponsors TheCityUK International Conference and co-writes a report on “Advancing international competitiveness and economic growth: how do financial regulators compare?” For the third year...
Author(s): Lloyd Rees, Claire Harrop, Emma Rachmaninov, Christopher Bernard
Per our kick-off blog on the EU’s new CSDDD (here), we are now providing a series of more in-depth overviews of aspects of the directive. In this blog, we focus on the public enforcement mechanism for...
Author(s): Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Valentin Weigel
On 10 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper (CP 24/7) on Payment Optionality for Investment Research (the Consultation Paper). The Consultation Paper introdu...
Author(s): Elisabeth Overland, Borja Ruiz De Gopegui, Oliver Schonle
On 17 April 2024, the UK Supreme Court, in State for Business and Trade v Mercer, declared that section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA) was incompatible w...
Author(s): Kathleen Healy, Katie Hall
In March, the independent review into equity in medical devices chaired by Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead published its long-awaited final report, making wide-ranging recommendations to tackle exis...
Author(s): Harriet Hanks, Sanjana Canumalla, Matt Allison
Our earlier briefing summarised the new rules on cross-border data transfer issued on 22 March 2024. Accompanying the new rules, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) also released revised guid...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Fan Li