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Brought to you by our award-winning Fintech, Market Infrastructure & Payments (FMIP) Group, we are thrilled to host our third Future of Fintech summit at a prestigious venue in the City of London on 17 September 2025.

We are excited to be hosting our fourth annual Alternative Insights Summit on Thursday 19 June.

Today we are launching our new podcast series, Different Voices.

Qatar National Bank (Q.P.S.C.) ("QNB") has secured a decisive victory in proceedings brought against it in the Kings Bench Division of the English High Court concerning allegations – denied by QNB - that it was connected to certain unlawful acts in Syria (KB-2023-001144 Basel Hashwah and Others v Qatar National Bank (Q.P.S.C.) and Others).   

On 3 June 2025, the Financial Reporting Council ("FRC") published the UK Stewardship Code 2026 (the "Code"). The Code is a voluntary framework designed to promote high standards of stewardship among financial market participants, encouraging the responsible allocation, management and oversight of capital. This edition of the Code will replace the UK Stewardship Code 2020 (the "2020 Code") as of 1 January 2026.

Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Livingbridge, as well as management and all other shareholders of TitanHQ on its merger with Bregal Milestone portfolio company Redstor. The combined business, CyberSentriq, will be an integrated cybersecurity and data protection platform purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

Modern slavery and human rights abuses impact countless supply chains across the world every year. Businesses and investors may be exposed to risks arising from such abuses regardless of how far down the supply chain they occur and, in some circumstances, may be under a duty to identify, remediate and prevent further violations.

Adidas, The North Face, Cartier and Victoria's Secret are the most recent names to join the ranks of retailers – Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and the Co-op – to be hit by cyber attacks in recent months. Rich in customer data, with significant resources and a strong reputation to protect, a large retailer is an attractive target for cyber criminals.

Customers in the EU on the receiving end of (often) one-sided cloud services contracts should see improvements in the terms they are offered around switching – or at least have a strong basis to negotiate better terms. From 12 September 2025, the EU's Data Act will apply directly to the provision of "data processing services", principally cloud and edge services, into the EU.

From 6 April 2026, the UK tax treatment of carried interest will be fundamentally reformed, with all carried interest being taxed exclusively as trading income and a bespoke effective tax rate of around 34.1% applying to so-called "qualifying carried interest".