The Linklaters Podcast

Episode 4: Operational Resilience The UK regulators have finalised their operational resilience regimes. Clare McMullen, Verity Kemp and Simon Treacy compare the final rules with the draft rules. Quote: Clare McMullen, Partner: “How firms treat vulnerable customers fairly is a real priority of the FCA at the moment and so it is not a surprise that they have added express references to vulnerable c...

Episode 3: Operational Resilience Julia Dixon, Pansy Wong and Simon Treacy share their insights from the OpRisk Global conference which took place virtually in March 2021. Pansy Wong, Partner: “Plenty of people I spoke to were worried about what it means that different standards are developing in different jurisdictions. And even though the overall aim of all these different regimes is the same, t...

Episode 2: Operational Reslience Pansy Wong, Rebecca Heaysman and Simon Treacy look back on what has changed since the UK regulators released their draft rules on operational resilience in December 2019. Pansy Wong, Partner: “It would be a real surprise if the outcome of all the policy work that has happened in the background isn’t influenced by the events that have taken place since the consultat...

Episode 1: Operational Resilience Julia Dixon, Verity Kemp and Simon Treacy introduce the concept of operational resilience and what it means for UK financial services. Julia Dixon, Partner: “The reforms are really signalling a cultural change, a shift in terms of how firms need to approach resilience and there’s going to be regulatory attention focused right at the top of the house on how you are...

Episode 7: The Next Year in Payments Michael Voisin & Richard Hay In this two-part episode, Michael Voisin and Richard Hay discuss the limitations of legacy systems and drives to improve and replace them. This second part focuses on efforts to create parallel closed loop payment systems that do not rely on existing legacy infrastructure, such as so called “stablecoins” and central bank digital cur...

Episode 6: The Next Year in Payments Michael Voisin & Richard Hay To date, much of the innovation in the payments market has been at the user-interface level – in a sense, “digital lipstick” applied on top of existing legacy systems. But that approach has its limitations. And there is now growing demand for improvements to underlying payment systems to increase the speed and efficiency of value mo...

Episode 5: The Next Year in Payments Peiying Chua Heikes & Niranjan Arasaratnam Asia has seen a huge growth in its payments industry over the past few years, spurred on by a young, tech-savvy generation and push for the financial inclusion of the underbanked. Amidst rapid development, regulators are now tasked with overcoming fragmentation in payments ecosystems and ensuring continued financia...

Episode 4: The Next Year in Payments Etienne Dessy, Jellen Rasquin & Donald Krols As part of the broader digital payment revolution across Europe, there has been considerable change in the Belgian payments market in recent years. Etienne Dessy, Jellen Rasquin and Donald Krols look ahead to the regulatory priorities for 2020 including PSD2, APIs and AML.

Episode 3: The Next Year in Payments Harry Eddis, Frances Hodgkins & Terry Yiangou  E-commerce, wallet services and digital payments are transforming the way we interact with money. Looking ahead, innovative payment systems are set to accelerate the global decline in cash use. Harry Eddis, Frances Hodgkins and Terry Yiangou discuss these market changes and the questions they pose about continuing...

Episode 2: The Next Year in Payments Jean Price & Arjun Lakhani An increase in outsourcing in the payments sector has brought with it increased regulatory scrutiny. Now payment institutions in the EU must take into account new outsourcing guidelines from the European Banking Authority. Jean Price and Arjun Lakhani discuss the key points for payment institutions to consider when assessing new and e...

Episode 1: The Next Year in Payments Paul Harris & Olivia Murphy As payments and banking have moved online, authenticating the identity of customers has become a vital part of the fight against fraud. New PSD2 rules on strong customer authentication were intended to bolster security standards across the market but have effectively been delayed. Paul Harris and Olivia Murphy discuss the background...

Episode 3: Real Estate Markets Across The Globe In this podcast we will focus in particular on the impact on landlords, tenants, borrowers and lenders, and the steps being taken by the German Government in the real estate context to address the issues they are currently facing.

Episode 2: Real Estate Markets Across The Globe This is part of a series given by Linklaters which looks at the practical implications of the Government’s proposed planning reforms in England, as set out in its 'Planning for the Future' white paper. Other articles in this series will address the proposed planning reforms as they evolve over time and following the end of the consultation on 29 Octo...

Episode 1: Real Estate Markets Across The Globe In this first podcast we will focus in particular on the impact on landlords, tenants, borrowers and lenders, and the steps being taken by the UK Government in the real estate context to address the issues they are currently facing.

Episode 4: IFD and CRD V Remuneration Developments In our podcast series, we discuss the latest publications and developments in relation to the upcoming IFD and CRD V remuneration rules and the impact these could have on firms that will be subject to them. We consider not only the key aspects of these latest publications and developments, but also how they compare with existing rules and some of...

Episode 3: IFD and CRD V Remuneration Developments In our podcast series, we discuss the latest publications and developments in relation to the upcoming IFD and CRD V remuneration rules and the impact these could have on firms that will be subject to them. We consider not only the key aspects of these latest publications and developments, but also how they compare with existing rules and some of...

Episode 2: IFD and CRD V Remuneration Developments In our podcast series, we discuss the latest publications and developments in relation to the upcoming IFD and CRD V remuneration rules and the impact these could have on firms that will be subject to them. We consider not only the key aspects of these latest publications and developments, but also how they compare with existing rules and some of...

Episode 1: IFD and CRD V Remuneration Developments In our podcast series, we discuss the latest publications and developments in relation to the upcoming IFD and CRD V remuneration rules and the impact these could have on firms that will be subject to them. We consider not only the key aspects of these latest publications and developments, but also how they compare with existing rules and some of...

Episode 7: Linkubator An ‘inflection point’ is the point in an industry where the fundamentals are about to change as noted by Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel, in his book ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’. In this special episode, Hamza joins Richard Tromans (Founder and Editor of news platform Artificial Lawyer and Founder of Tromans Consulting) and Paul Lewis (Partner, Global Co-Head of Innovation and Glo...

Episode 6: Linkubator Having an entrepreneurial mindset in law is becoming ever-increasingly important. In this episode Hamza catches up with Mark Cohen (CEO of Legal Mosaic), who has a history of being a lawyer entrepreneur or, in other words, a “lawyerpreneur”. Their conversation covers topics such as how students and young lawyers can think about bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to law firms,...

Episode 5: Linkubator  With investments in the legal technology space exceeding the billion-dollar mark in both 2018 and 2019 and consolidation heating up in the sector, Hamza speaks to Ben Meyer (Partner at Hg Capital, leading on Legal Tech investments) and Matt Peers (COO at Linklaters) on these developments. They discuss what makes the sector so attractive from an investor perspective, whether...

Episode 4: Linkubator With all of the buzz around AI and machine learning, people can often lose sight of what it is. In this episode, Hamza catches up with Neil Sahota and Christian Storck to discuss what AI is, what its different applications are and can be in the legal industry, and the potential challenges around this. They also debate crucial questions such as to what extent AI will replace o...

Episode 3: Linkubator There has been a lot of disruption and digitisation in how people trade shares and bonds, but such a shift has not yet taken place to the same extent when it comes to how companies initially issue these securities. Nivaura is a startup that is working in this space to help automate the issuing of bonds and has received investment from the likes of Linklaters and the London St...

Episode 2: Linkubator The use of analytics has permeated into various industries, from baseball to banking, but could analytics be invaluable for lawyers as well? In this episode, Hamza speaks to Richard Mabey (Co-Founder and CEO of Juro) and Ed Chan (Founder of Nakhoda and Partner at Linklaters) to learn more about the uses and applications of analytics in the legal industry and how it differs fr...

Episode 1: Linkubator With the new premium on innovation and collaboration and changing client expectations, there has been a lot of focus and excitement recently around design thinking in the legal industry. In this first episode, Hamza Zaveri (Trainee at Linklaters) speaks to legal technology innovator and entrepreneur Nicole Bradick (Founder of legal tech design consultancy Theory and Principle...