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New sanctions legislation targeting sanctions circumvention – what does this mean for financial institutions?

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention of sanctions has therefore become increasingly important as such...

Author(s): Xiao Zhang, Alicia Hildner, Alexander Glos

  • europe
  • financial institutions
  • regulatory
  • sanctions
  • transactions
  • financial crime
  • investigations and enforcement

UK Publishes Financial Services Sector Threat Assessment for Financial Sanctions

The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has published a financial services sector threat assessment, to help UK firms better understand and protect against threats and vulnerabili...

Author(s): Simon Orton, Oliver Hamill, Lucy Clark, Eleanor Turner

  • sanctions
  • financial crime
  • financial services

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

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