Our Recent Thought Leadership

The following represents a carefully curated selection of our recent Thought Leadership contributions:

ECB-SSM's supervisory "Guides" 

The ECB-SSM's release of its final supervisory "Guides", which read like rulebooks, on licencing of credit institutions as well as "FinTech" credit institutions mark a welcome step to definitively harmonise existing concepts but also expand these further to new/FinTech business models in specifying the steps, the detail and the approach that applicant firms and the professional advisers supporting them will need to take to apply for authorisation or a variation of permission. Our Client Alert, which is available here and part of a series of Alerts and Background Briefings on how to be authorised and regulated in the Banking Union highlights developments in an area that has largely been left unharmonized in the EU's Single Rulebook for financial services.