Financial Services

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Investing in relationships & technical understanding & making it easy & mint service & banking on quality & cross border transactions & that’s Financial Services with Bird & Bird

Overview

Our Financial Services team understands the legal and business landscape in this rapidly evolving sector – we are ideally placed to help you navigate the opportunities opened up by technology and the digital world.

From transactional banking to employment, regulation, compliance & investigations, outsourcing and disputes, our international team includes market-leading experts in tech, communications, data protection, intellectual property, e-commerce and more. 

We regularly advise major international and domestic banks (both retail and investment), funds, asset managers, insurers, financial intermediaries, payments providers, brokers and retail product providers, and others.

Whatever your legal need, we offer powerful insights and innovative solutions, aligned with your goals and strategic ambitions. Our areas of focus include:

  • FinTech
  • digital currencies (including virtual and cryptocurrencies)
  • online payment services
  • electronic banking

Want to learn more? Please contact Group heads Christian Bartsch and Stefano Febbi.

Contacts

Christian Bartsch

Christian Bartsch

Partner
UK

Call me on: +44 (0)20 7415 6000
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Stefano Febbi

Stefano Febbi

Partner
Italy

Call me on: +39 02 30 35 60 00
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News & Events

  1. 0709-2018

    Tax Alert – September 2018 - Corporate criminal offences in the UK for failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion

    Since 30 September 2017, the UK has introduced two new criminal offences which create strict liability for companies if they failed to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

  2. 2407-2018

    EBA publishes final Guidelines on fraud reporting under PSD2

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the final Guidelines on fraud reporting under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

  3. 2606-2018

    Rare refusal by Mainland China Court to enforce HKIAC Arbitration Award

    A recent judgment from the Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court ("Beijing Court") refused to recognise and enforce a foreign arbitral award issued in Hong Kong on the basis that the award dealt with a difference ...

  1. 0309-2018

    Bird & Bird boosts international Dispute Resolution Group with the appointment of Adam Kowalczyk as partner in Warsaw

    Bird & Bird today boosts its international Dispute Resolution Group with the appointment of Adam Kowalczyk as partner in Warsaw.

  2. 2610-2017

    Bird & Bird and City A.M. launch this year's 'Digital Innovators Power List'

    The South East's most visionary digital companies are today unveiled in this year's 'Digital Innovators Power List', curated by international law firm Bird & Bird and London-based news brand City A.M.

  3. 1008-2016

    FinTech Company Holvi sold to BBVA

    Bird & Bird's Nordic offices in Copenhagen and Helsinki have advised Holvi in the acquisition by multinational Spanish banking group, BBVA.

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  1. 2609-2018

    Briefing: key changes in EU AML and US sanction regimes

    This hot topic briefing will cover developments in EU anti-money laundering rules and the US sanctions regime and how your company can mitigate risk and save resources by preparing its compliance infrastructure for both regimes.

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