Open finance and open banking has the potential to promote innovation and benefit customers – but effective and ethical implementation will be challenging.

A brief examination of publicly available tender notices shows that a large number of public sector charging and fleet electrification projects are coming to the market. However, the decarbonisation of public sector fleets brings procurement, structuring and funding challenges for stakeholders across the market, from charge point operators to contractors...

The future of the financial services sector will be shaped by two global trends - digitalisation and decarbonisation. We are already seeing a progressive digital transformation of banks, involving collaboration with FinTechs, and implementation of AI or cloud technology solutions. In finance, on the other hand, there is a clear...

International legal practice Osborne Clarke is advising CVI UK Ltd, a company formed at the direction of Berry Bros. & Rudd and Atlantis Wine Holding, a Symington Family Estates company, on its recommended £22.3 million takeover offer for Hambledon Vineyard plc. Under the offer, each Hambledon ordinary and B ordinary...

2024 looks set to be another busy year for the commercial real estate industry, with the introduction of biodiversity net gain, a continued focus on building safety, government commitment to transparency of property ownership and intensified demand for sustainable practices within the built environment. Forthcoming legislation is also set to...

In January 2023 our Osborne Clarke Knowledge Lawyers made their business law predictions for 2023 . Here, we see how those predictions are faring. General We thought that " businesses and their advisers are likely to sharpen their focus on the Opposition's emerging plans for the economy " – perhaps...

US and European businesses will be looking to 2022 for the global economic recovery to pick up speed and for the restrictions of the two-year Covid-19 pandemic to ease. Although government economic and monetary policies have differed on either side of the Atlantic, US businesses looking east will likely see...