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Payments Services - Regulatory

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We regularly advise clients on how best to structure their businesses and contractual arrangements within the context of the regulatory regime established by the EU Payment Services Directive. We also draft and review terms of business for compliance with the Payment Services Regulations 2009.

Our work in this area frequently overlaps with the related area of E-Money and we have supported many firms with applications to become payment institutions and E-Money issuers.

Financial services regulatory

Our financial services and markets group has an in-depth knowledge of the FSA and how its authorisation, supervision and enforcement divisions operate in practice.

Members of the group have in-house experience gained from working at the FSA, investment exchanges and major financial institutions and we have successfully lobbied for changes to regulations affecting clients as well as advising the FSA on implementing those changes.

Combining our legal strength and industry knowledge, we play a proactive role in assisting our clients to plan for and implement changes as they occur. Our commercially astute, solutions-based advice is presented in a clear and understandable way.

We advise financial institutions in the retail and wholesale sectors, including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, commodity traders, corporate financiers, custodians, insurance and reinsurance firms and intermediaries and life and general insurers.

We also advise listed companies on UKLA rules.

Retail Payments and PSD

Our Financial Services regulatory team has a strong retail and payments focus, with members of the team who have been seconded to retail financial institutions and worked at the FSA. The team has particular expertise of supporting providers of services and product manufacturers in the retail financial services market.

The group advises firms on the application of the Payment Services Directive (as implemented in the UK by the Payment Services Regulations 2009) and E-Money Directive (including advice to firms on the implications of the Second E-Money Directive), including advice on how to structure commercial arrangements to ensure that they fall outside the scope of those directives as well as the preparation of compliance-driven documentation, including terms of business.

View our overall expertise in this area.

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View our corporate finance expertise in this area.

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