The Linklaters Podcast

Episode 1: Greenwashing from a UK regulatory perspective – the FCA and the FRC Speakers: Dasha Konnova and Terry Yiangou In this episode, we look at the FCA and FRC’s response to greenwashing and recent developments, including the proposed anti-greenwashing rule and practical tips businesses can take today. 

Episode 5: value chain In this episode, partner Rachel Barrett and managing associate Tom Cobbaert discuss the CSRD’s requirement to report on the value chain, including what a value chain is and how to report on this in practical terms.

Episode 4: double materiality In this episode, partner David Ballegeer and managing associate Iyes Igiehon explain the CSRD's approach to materiality (known as "double materiality"), which will require a significant shift in the way in-scope entities report on sustainability issues in the EU.

Episode 3: Investigation Insights In this episode, Doug Tween , Sima Ostrovsky and Kaan Gürer discuss surprise inspections relating to antitrust concerns, known as Dawn Raids. For further information on dawn raids, visit our dedicated web page where you will find details of our dawn raid app mentioned in the podcast. You can also get in touch with us  to customise the app to your organisation and...

Episode 16: Optimising and testing for customer understanding: insights from Fairer Finance We interview special guest James Daley (founder of Fairer Finance) about practical ways you can meet the Consumer Duty’s customer understanding outcome. You’ll learn about the Duty’s requirements for customer communications and understanding, simple and effective tips and tricks to optimise your communicati...

Episode 3: What are the ESRS and what do they require? In this episode, managing associates Iyesogie Igiehon and Aileen Buchanan explain what the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) are, what their current status is and next steps.

Episode 15: Insights from Lighthouse We interview special guest senior user experience (UX) designer Dan Burgess from leading UX/UI design agency Lighthouse about how you can avoid, and use, UX "patterns" to meet the FCA's Consumer Duty expectations. UX "patterns" are a powerful tool for you in meeting the FCA's expectation that firms account for customers' cognitive and behavioural biases that ma...

Episode 2: Scope and timing In this podcast, managing associate  Terry Yiangou and associate Elliot Jack explain who the CSRD applies to, when it will apply and some of the exemptions.

Episode 14: Our interview with Lighthouse In this episode we interview special guest Tom Johnson from UX/UI design agency Lighthouse for his insights into user research and user experience design to meet the FCA's Consumer Duty expectations.   We explain how these disciplines are important in the context of all four Consumer Duty outcomes and to avoiding foreseeable harm to customers.  Tom introdu...

Episode 1: What is this all about In this episode, managing associates Aileen Buchanan and James Marlow discuss at a high level what the CSRD is, what it requires, the entities that are in scope and what they need to report.

Episode 5: Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan In this episode, Josh and Jonathan weigh in on the SEC’s charges against Bittrex, Gary Gensler’s House hearings, the reintroduction of a federal stablecoin bill, MiCA’s passage, Yuga Lab’s trademark victory, and Taylor Swift’s good sense about FTX. Did Gensler change his mind about proof of work and Algo, or is the SEC throwing tokens at the wall unti...

What does the Financial Action Task Force’s grey listing of South Africa mean? In this podcast, members of our Global Business Crime team and alliance partner Webber Wentzel talk about what South Africa’s addition to the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list means for companies with businesses or investments in South Africa.  In particular, they cover: What it means to be grey-listed by FATF. Th...

Episode 13: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this episode we interview special guest Ruth Persian from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT, unofficially the “Nudge Unit”) for her insights into what is perhaps the most interesting and least understood aspects of the Consumer Duty: the requirement to consider behavioural biases.   Ruth explains behavioural biases and the behavioural insights approach, how...

Episode 29: Payments Monthly The FCA is in line to get new rule-making powers over payments firms. But why does the FCA need these powers? Jean Price, Frances Hodgkins and Simon Treacy discuss how they could be used to settle a debate about whether payments firms hold customer funds on trust.

Episode 12: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this episode, we speak with Richard Green from AssetQ about the obligations firms have under the Consumer Duty to monitor, gather and exchange information with others in their distribution chains.  We cover a brief outline of the key data and monitoring obligations under the Duty, high level guiding principles, examples of specific data points you might want...

Episode 4: Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan In this episode, Josh and Jonathan discuss The New York Times' scathing article against crypto mining — and Riot’s compelling rebuttal, Ethereum’s Shanghai/Capella upgrade, the Treasury's DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment, a California federal court’s bZx DAO ruling recognizing the existence of a general partnership and a negligence theory of liabi...

The resolution of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVBUK) was the first time since 2009 that the Bank of England put a bank into resolution.  As the dust settles, regulators and the market are assessing the meaning of this resolution for financial services regulation.   In this episode, our resolution specialists Edward Chan ,  Bobby Butcher  and  Elli Karaindrou lift the bonnet on SVBUK, the resol...

Episode 3: Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan In this episode, Josh and Jonathan discuss the “what’s happening?,” “why now?” and “what’s next?” of the Coinbase Wells notice, the CFTC enforcement action against Binance, and the SushiSwap SEC subpoena and proposal to Sushi DAO to create a legal defense fund. What’s behind the sudden rush of enforcement? Why is the SEC coming for Coinbase despite it...

Episode 28: Payments Monthly The FCA is still concerned about compliance standards at payments and e-money firms. Pansy Wong, Harry Eddis and Simon Treacy talk about what firms need to do in response to its latest warning shot to the sector.

Episode 2: Investigation Insights In this episode, Alison Saunders, Elly Proudlock, James Phoenix and Rachel Metcalf discuss the successes and failures of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office during Ms Osofsky’s tenure and consider the business crime investigations landscape in 2023 and beyond.

Episode 2: Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan In this episode, Josh and Jonathan unpack the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank. With the three banks most associated with digital assets no longer up and running, has crypto been unbanked for good? Did Jerome Powell himself set the first domino in motion? Did VCs pressure the government into covering their de...

Episode 1: Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan In the inaugural episode of Crypto Facto with Josh and Jonathan, our hosts tackle the SEC’s latest signaling on digital asset regulation and enforcement. Does SEC Chair Gary Gensler plan to treat everything but Bitcoin as a security? Under the proposed amendments to the Custody Rule, who will qualify as a custodian of digital assets? Is the SEC coming...

Episode 11: The Linklaters Ideas Foundry Dr Harriet Shortt and Ian Rodwell The pandemic helped many of us realise that where we work affects how we work. And as organisations reconfigured offices and workplaces to facilitate hybrid working, it became even clearer that the material spaces in which we work matter. They have the power to influence our creativity, productivity, emotions and even our s...

Episode 7: The Most Important Issues in Business Crime podcast series In our seventh episode, Doug Davison is joined by guests Rebecca McGregor and Michael Lamson. Together they discuss the increased regulatory focus on financial reporting and enforcement trends in the professional services industry.

Episode 27: Payments Monthly 2023 is set to be a pivotal year for the regulation of cryptoassets. In our latest payments podcast, Harry Eddis, James Morris and Simon Treacy provide an update on how the UK government plans to regulate stablecoins and other cryptoassets.