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How will the Conservatives and Labour help support the fintech sector?
Posted: 02/07/2024
The Conservatives’ promises for fintech are largely contained within the Edinburgh Reforms, the Mansion House Compact and the Future of Payments Review, which taken together set out what we can expect for fintech if the Conservatives were to continue in government. Interestingly, Labour’s approach to fintech and financial services......>>
EU AI Act – and a UK AI Regulation Bill?
Posted: 15/12/2023
AI legislation has been much in the news, with the European Parliament and Council of the EU reaching long-awaited political agreement on the proposed European Union Artificial Intelligence Act on Friday 8 December. The last few weeks also saw the UK Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill being introduced as a Private Members’ Bill......>>
The Bitcoin file format and fixation: can copyright exist?
Posted: 19/10/2023
In Wright and others v BTC Core and others [2023] EWCA Civ 868, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against the High Court's refusal to grant the claimants permission to serve a claim for infringement of copyright in the file format for the Bitcoin system out of the jurisdiction.......>>
David and Goliath: can an arbitration award be recognised and enforced against a UK consumer?
Posted: 02/10/2023
The English Commercial Court has recently considered whether an arbitration award relating to a cryptocurrency exchange contract is recognisable and enforceable against a UK consumer. In Payward, Inc and ors v Chechetkin [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm), Mr Justice Bright refused to enforce a foreign-seated arbitration award......>>
The state of AI regulation in the UK and EU
Posted: 03/08/2023
On 14 June 2023, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to adopt the proposed European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). This act aims to regulate in somewhat fine detail the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI) across the EU. The next stage is that trilogue discussions will commence between......>>

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