DSM: Proposals for New E-commerce Rules
The European Commission has moved one stage on in its proposals for the Digital Single Market (DSM) and published its latest proposals…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
SCL Event Report: Negotiating IT Contracts
Mike Ahyow reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 5) which was held on 11 May 2016 and hosted by Osborne Clarke LLP….
Panama Papers: Implications for In-house Lawyers and Private Practice
Michael Wigley and James Young-Drew highlight the cybersecurity dangers that the Panama Papers hack revealed…
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Protecting Privacy in a World of Big Data: The Role of Enhanced Accountability
Bojana Bellamy and Markus Heyder consider the role that the concept of enhanced accountability can play in creating a sustainable data-driven economy and information society. Bojana is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Data Protection – Compliance in a Heavily Regulated Environment’…
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Humans, Machines and Regulators: FinTech in the Human-to-Human Economy and Beyond
Joachim Schwerin confronts blockchain (‘the most disruptive part of the FinTech universe’), touches on crowdfunding and gives his personal views on the way to deal with such disruption from a policy perspective. Joachim is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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A Meatier Taste: More IFCLA Conference Articles
Two more articles give a flavour of the major Conference which is to be hosted by SCL…
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IFCLA Conference Taster Articles
Whet your appetite for the IFCLA Conference with two articles from its many speakers…
Digital Enablement of Banking Services in an API Economy
With digital disruption high on the agenda for organisations working in the financial services industry, Kenny Robertson looks at the importance of APIs and what the adoption of progressive API strategies might bring with particular reference to his own employer, RBS. Kenny Robertson is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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Ireland: Recent Developments in the National Cyber Security Sphere
Pearse Ryan and Shane McCarthy consider recent policy and strategy level developments in the cyber security sphere in Ireland….
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Age of Consent
Tim Turner offers his forthright view that the requirement for clear and unambiguous consent under the GDPR is clear and unambiguous, and raises concerns about the advice given to some in the charity sector that muddies this clarity….