Payments innovation
Our team advises on all legal and regulatory aspects of payment systems, services, and products.
There are few sectors that can claim to have changed as significantly in recent years as the payments sector, with a dramatic rise in e-commerce and online payments, wallet services, and other payments innovations.
There are few sectors that can claim to have changed as significantly in recent years as the payments sector, with a dramatic rise in e-commerce and online payments, wallet services, and other payments innovations.
The global payment systems landscape faces continual disruption, as innovators look to alternative payment rails to bring about greater efficiencies in both the retail and wholesale markets. For businesses in the ecosystem, ensuring that they can keep pace with developments and meet future challenges in the payments world is a key priority.
A global payments offering from an integrated team
Our market-leading, multidisciplinary team work alongside both pioneering new market entrants and long-established players in the payments space. We help our clients structure new payments systems, products and services in local and international markets and with increasing regulatory scrutiny.
Being part of our global Technology Sector, we have insights into many trends emerging across the globe. This gives us a unique breadth and depth of expertise. Our collaborative approach ensures that clients receive commercially innovative and technically strong specialised advice.
Empowering payments innovation
We support our clients with the rapid digital transformation of the payments sector and in seeking opportunities to leverage new technologies, innovative systems and products, whilst navigating the associated risks. We ensure their businesses are structured appropriately, operate compliantly, and are able to offer DLT-based and other innovative systems, products and services.
Finger on the regulatory pulse
Payments are not just of paramount importance to financial services institutions but are increasingly relevant to corporate and tech companies who are being drawn into the expanding regulatory perimeter. We engage directly with regulators in all areas of regulatory structuring, advice and governance, complex regulatory investigations, enforcement cases, system and control requirements, regulatory and reporting advice.
