Expert Articles and Blogs

Expert Articles and Blogs

Financial Services

ESRB Annual Report on activities in 2024: Key developments, supervisory priorities and regulatory implications

21 Jul 2025
16 min read

Litigation, Arbitration

Together or alone? The unexplored potential of caucus in the German mediation landscape

17 Jul 2025
13 min read

Financial Services

Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies obligations of bankruptcy courts to assess unfair contract terms in consumer insolvency proceedings

14 Jul 2025
12 min read

Financial Services

Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies expectations on consumer protection and mortgage enforcement

03 Jul 2025
13 min read

Energy and climate law

EU Commission plans prolongation of the Gas Storage Regulation until 2027

26 Jun 2025
4 min read

Financial Services

EIOPA releases 2024 Annual Report – Key developments, regulatory initiatives and strategic priorities

25 Jun 2025
11 min read

Financial Services

ESMA releases 2024 Annual Report – Key developments, regulatory initiatives and strategic priorities

23 Jun 2025
15 min read

Financial Services

EBA releases 2024 Annual Report – Key developments, regulatory initiatives and strategic priorities

18 Jun 2025
11 min read

Litigation, Arbitration Antitrust, Public Procurement and State Aid Law

Use of personal data for AI Training does not violate DMA according to Higher Regional Court of Cologne

03 Jun 2025
4 min read

Financial Services

ECB publishes Guide to consultation of ECB by national authorities regarding draft legislative provisions

26 May 2025
9 min read

Financial Services

ECB-SSM Annual Report on Supervisory Activities 2024: Key developments, supervisory priorities and regulatory implications

22 May 2025
7 min read

Financial Services

Annual Report on Sanctioning Activities in the SSM 2024: ECB-SSM sets out key findings and regulatory implications

21 May 2025
6 min read

Litigation, Arbitration Antitrust, Public Procurement and State Aid Law

Enforcement of the DMA – European Commission imposes first fines under the DMA on Apple and Meta

20 May 2025
5 min read

Financial Services

ESMA publishes Final Report and Final Draft RTS on investment firms’ order execution policies

20 May 2025
13 min read

Financial Services

The emergence of request to pay (RTP) from a financial services legal and regulatory perspective

12 May 2025
9 min read

Public Business Law

Importance, Development and Regulation of AI in Low Income Countries and Emerging Markets

30 Apr 2025
4 min read

Financial Services

Making sense of MAC and force majeure clauses in the time of tariffs

24 Apr 2025
25 min read

Financial Services

ECB Opinion on a Shorter Settlement Cycle Regulation

17 Apr 2025
5 min read

Financial Services

The trouble with trading app outages

15 Apr 2025
13 min read

Financial Services

Germany’s 2025 Coalition Agreement – Key takeaways for financial services firms

11 Apr 2025
13 min read

Financial Services

ESMA letter on prioritisation of 2025 deliverables

02 Apr 2025
3 min read

Financial Services

The EU’s 2025 Savings and Investments Union Strategy

31 Mar 2025
16 min read

Energy and climate law

Clean Industrial Deal, Action Plan for Affordable Energy and Omnibus packages I and II

21 Mar 2025
11 min read

Financial Services

Transitioning securities settlement to T+1 in the EU

10 Mar 2025
4 min read

Public Business Law

Effective and legally secure government regulation in shaping key future transformation themes – challenges and solutions approaches

07 Mar 2025
3 min read

Financial Services

European Commission publishes a “Competitiveness Compass” and its Annual Work Programme – key aspects for financial services

20 Feb 2025
2 min read

Financial Services

ESMA publishes its Programming Document 2026-2028

06 Feb 2025
15 min read

Financial Services

Back to the drawing board? European Commission rejects DORA subcontracting RTS

05 Feb 2025
9 min read

Financial Services

European Commission and ESMA publish Guidance on non-MiCAR compliant ARTs and EMTs

24 Jan 2025
7 min read

Financial Services

MiCAR – Final guidelines on qualification of crypto-assets as financial instruments

22 Jan 2025
19 min read

Financial Services

MiCAR – Final guidelines on reverse solicitation

22 Jan 2025
3 min read

Financial Services

MiCAR – Final RTS specifying certain requirements in relation to the detection and prevention of crypto-asset related market abuse

22 Jan 2025
15 min read

Financial Services

MiCAR – Final RTS published on information of a proposed acquisition of qualifying holdings in issuers of ARTs

22 Jan 2025
15 min read

Financial Services

MiCAR – Final guidelines on systems maintenance and security access protocols for crypto-assets other than ARTs and EMTs

22 Jan 2025
11 min read

Financial Services

ESMA consults on draft guidelines on the internal control systems framework for some of its supervised entities

17 Jan 2025
3 min read

Financial Services

ESMA consults on Technical Advice on Listing Act implications

17 Jan 2025
12 min read

Financial Services

ECJ ruling on the independence of national resolution authorities – strengthening of shareholder and bondholder rights

16 Jan 2025
11 min read

Data Protection and Cybersecurity

India: Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 released – open to public comments

14 Jan 2025
1 min read