FinTech Pulse

In this special edition of Norton Rose Fulbright’s FinTech Pulse Podcast, Sean Murphy is joined by Sandra Ro, CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council, FinTech entrepreneur, angel investor and former executive director of digitization at CME Group, to discuss the latest FinTech trends and her 2022 predictions for NFTs, Web 3.0, CBDCs and the regulatory landscape.

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, we provide an update on the Financial Action Task Force’s new travel rule and its impact on virtual assets and VASPs in the UK and the EU, FATF’s recent guidance in the US on virtual assets, as well as the Stablecoin Report recently issued by the US President’s Working Group and we explore how the changes to the c...

In this special edition of Norton Rose Fulbright’s FinTech Pulse podcast, our FinTech lawyers discuss trends, challenges and tips that Asian FinTechs should consider when looking to expand by way of acquisition into Europe and the US.

In this latest InsurTech special edition of Norton Rose Fulbright’s FinTech Pulse podcast, Madeleine Bailey and Peter McBurney (co-hosts of Technology Consulting NRF) are joined by James Croome, Fine Art and Specie Underwriter at Arch Insurance to discuss digital assets and cryptocurrencies in the insurance sector. They explore the risk management protocols and assessments for cryptocurrency cover...

In this special InsurTech edition, Tim Chan (Associate, Sydney) is joined by René Papesch, Co-Founder and CTO of Riskwolf. René and Tim discuss how parametric products are being applied to emerging risks in the digital economy. We explore the nature of connectivity risks in light of recent high profile outages and the insurance industry’s progress towards insuring such losses. We also discuss how...

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, we provide an update on the latest crypto clampdown in China and what it means for crypto service providers operating in China, as well as offshore service providers, explore the US payments landscape, discuss recent crypto regulatory developments in South Africa, talk about the key takeaways from our recent globa...

In this special InsurTech edition, Tim Chan (Associate, Sydney) is joined by Brenton Charnley, CEO (Australia and New Zealand) at TrueLayer. TrueLayer is a global open banking platform with customers across Europe, the UK, and Australia. Brenton shares his experience and insights into open finance – how it is relevant for the insurance industry as well as the roll out of Australia’s consumer data...

In this special edition of FinTech Pulse, we are joined by Chase Lochmiller, CEO of Crusoe Energy to discuss the greening of Bitcoin mining. Crusoe is pioneering an environmentally friendly way to deal with the energy footprint of Bitcoin mining by capturing flared gas from oil and gas fields - through its patented digital flare mitigation systems - to power crypto mining operations. We also discu...

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, we explore the concept of the Metaverse and the potential legal and regulatory issues which could arise, discuss the intellectual property and licencing considerations relating to NFTs, and explain the latest development in Chinese data protection regulations.

In this special edition of FinTech Pulse from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, our lawyers from London and South Africa discuss the African payments landscape, exploring why mobile payments have been so successful, the regulatory landscape supporting payments, why it is an attractive market for payments and telecoms companies and what the future holds.

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, we explore NFTs, hear about the state of the Mexican FinTech and crypto markets, discuss the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority recent announcement regarding Binance’s activities in the UK, find out how regulatory reforms are impacting the UK’s landscape and learn about a recent judgement of the German Federal Court...

In this special edition of FinTech Pulse from Norton Rose Fulbright, Madeline Bailey, co-head of Technology consulting at Norton Rose Fulbright is joined by one of the most influential women in European InsurTech, Parul Green, Board member of Insurtech Board, HM Treasury and Chief of Staff, APAC and Europe at AXA XL, to discuss the state of all things innovation and InsurTech in the Insurance sect...

In this special edition of FinTech Pulse from Norton Rose Fulbright, members of our global FinTech regulation team compare notes on their jurisdictions’ approaches to crypto-custody and the use of crypto-assets as collateral, in particular: •How the law in various jurisdictions categorises crypto-assets and what does that mean for their custody? •Do you need a regulatory licence to hold crypto-ass...

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from Norton Rose Fulbright, we interview Tim Chapman from Elliptic on the tracing of cryptocurrencies, particularly in the context of disputes and investigations, we discuss the recent significant developments in the crypto space in Hong Kong and China, as well as the crackdown on embedded finance, we discuss the FinTech landscape in Germany and provide an...

In this month’s episode of FinTech Pulse from Norton Rose Fulbright, we discuss the potential impact of the recently proposed European AI regulation, the increasing use of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the FinTech sector and why a SPAC might be a viable alternative to a IPO, and finally what makes the UK an attractive market for FinTechs to expand into and the related regulatory...

Welcome to the first episode of FinTech Pulse. This month we’re joined by Philippa Martinelli, FinTech advisor to the UK Department for International Trade to discuss the Kalifa review, and Don Tapscott, CEO of the US Blockchain Research Institute to talk about the report he co-authored making recommendations on the future digital strategy of the US for the Biden-Harris administration. We’ll also...