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Financial Services

New data and reporting rules as the FCA revamps the appointed representative regime

What steps do principals need to take to get up to speed with the new UK procedural requirements?
Blockchain

Law Commission launches digital assets consultation

UK businesses involved in crypto-token transactions have an opportunity to shape the future regulation of crypto-assets
Life Sciences and Healthcare

Zantac clash is reminder for life sciences industry of need for litigation strategies

Robust defences are critical when litigation concerns one product but multiple claimants and jurisdictions
Financial Services

UK financial watchdog tells firms to review 'buy now, pay later' promotions

All 'buy now, pay later' products must comply with financial promotion rules or risk enforcement action, FCA warns
Financial Services

FCA improves its appointed representative regime amid UK consumer-harm concerns

The changes will specify more precisely a principal's responsibility for and oversight of ARs and what this means in practice
Tech, Media and Comms

Streaming market study update aims to keep harmony in UK music industry

Businesses and individuals in music streaming need to remain aware of developments ahead of the final report in 2023

Commercial

Marketinglaw update | August 2022

Welcome to the latest edition of Marketinglaw.
Retail and Consumer

App stores warned as Samsung found liable for third-party content

The UK High Court denies the eCommerce Directive 'safe harbour' defence in decision on infringing third-party apps

Dispute resolution

US Supreme Court ends discovery by US courts in aid of foreign arbitration proceedings

An arbitral tribunal is not a 'foreign or international tribunal' under Section 1782 of Title 28 of the United States

IT and data

UK government proposes clamp down on use of data subject access requests as a litigation tactic

Consultation response suggests that an inappropriate 'purpose' for making a DSAR could soon be a reason to refuse to respond

Tech, Media and Comms

European institutions contemplate the metaverse and its policy challenges

European Parliament Research Service paper considers regulation by adapting the existing digital world policy framework

Digitalisation

Will AI be a game changer for the sports industry?

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in sport, but it is not yet clear how looming regulation will affect the sector