Hogan Lovells Events | 23 May and 6 June 2023 | 2:00 p.m. (BST)

Hogan Lovells FinTech Fundamentals

Below you’ll find details of the 2023 FinTech Fundamentals webinar series. Reflecting FinTech’s global reach, we’ll be taking a multi-jurisdictional look at a wide range of topics and trends and discussing threats and opportunities for FinTechs at all stages of growth.

2023 saw a wide range of regulatory topics that were of interest to our clients, which we’ve covered in our series. If there are other topics you would like us to cover, please let us know.

1. Webinar - Current market trends for tech investments in Europe – 2 March at 10 a.m. GMT

Join us for a 1-hour webinar for a conversation on the current changes in the market trends, investor behaviors, and company/founder perspective.

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2. Webinar - UK and Ireland take on cost of living crisis and its impact on the financial services sector – 22 March at 10 a.m. GMT

Join us and our special guest speaker Matt Swinburne-Johnson, Client Director at Moneyhub for a discussion about the impact of the cost of living crisis on the financial services sector. We’ll also look against the backdrop of the implementation of the consumer duty in the UK and the Consumer Protection Code review in Ireland.


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3. Webinar - Financial Resilience, resolution and wind-up - regulatory deep dive for FinTechs and Financial Institutions – 23 May at 2 p.m. BST

Partner Eoin O'Connor and Counsels Andreas Boser, Charles Elliott and Christine Borries will discuss regulatory expectations regarding risk management and financial resilience; emergency powers for resolution of banks and non-bank FinTechs; operational challenges around safeguarding in high risk/high interest environments; and the wider implications for financially distressed FinTechs.


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4. Webinar - Will the EU Crowdfunding Regulation make crowdfunding an attractive alternative to traditional equity financing? – 6 June at 2 p.m. BST

Watch our cross-border team on a webinar recording where they explored the regulatory developments in crowdfunding in Europe. The Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers harmonizes the provision of investment and lending-based crowdfunding services across the EU.


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5. Webinar - PSD3 sub-series: Episode 1 – The PSD3 proposal – 31 October at 2 p.m. GMT

Watch the PSD3 proposal webinar – the first instalment in a series of three webinars on the European Commission's June 2023 financial data access and payments package.

Key topics:

We looked at one of the two legislative proposals to improve the functioning of PSD2, a proposed Directive on payment services and electronic money services which focuses on licensing and supervision of payment institutions – so-called PSD3, as well as:

• Rationale for and implications of setting out the proposed amendments to PSD2 in two separate legislative acts
• Potential impact of the proposed merger of the e-money and payment services regimes on both new and existing payments and e-money firms
• Proposed changes to safeguarding and other business requirements

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6. Webinar - PSD3 sub-series: Episode 2 – The PSR proposal – 21 November at 2 p.m. GMT

Watch the PSR Proposal webinar – the second instalment in a series of three webinars on PSD3, the European Commission's June 2023 financial data access and payments package.

Key topics:

This webinar considered the second of the European Commission's two legislative proposals to improve the functioning of PSD2, a proposed Regulation on payment services in the EU. Discussion points included:

• Interplay between payments services regulation and PSD3
• Exclusions and exceptions
• Transparency and execution
• Strong customer authentication and anti-fraud

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7. Webinar PSD3 sub-series: Episode 3 – The FiDA proposal – 6 December at 2 p.m. GMT

Watch the final episode in a series of three webinars on the European Commission’s Payments Package, this one discussing the Proposal for a regulation for a framework for financial data access (FIDA).

Key topics included:

• understanding the mechanics of FiDA and how it relates to PSD3 and PSR;
• exploring where FiDA lies on the journey of Open Banking to Open Finance and eventually to Open Data;
• discussing the interplay of FiDA and the GDPR;
• exploring the authorization as a FISP and the relationship/differences between FISPs and AISPs; and
• how the Financial Data Sharing Scheme will work and if mandating this is the right approach?

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