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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

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

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

Time is ticking for the Failure to Prevent Fraud offence coming into force

On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published final guidance on what constitute reasonable prevention procedures (the “Guidance”), on which organisations can seek to base a defence to the recently i...

Author(s): Matthew Bruce, Ben Morgan, Ali Sallaway, Emily Knight, Laura Feldman, Caroline Doherty de Novoa

  • uk listed companies
  • corporate crime
  • investigations
  • financial crime
  • investigations and enforcement

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