United Kingdom: Technology

As businesses reconfigure operations across Asia amid escalating trade barriers, export controls, and supply-chain disruption, leading organizations are fundamentally rethinking how they approach risk management. Rather than treating risk as a damage-limitation exercise, forward-thinking companies are embedding it as a core design principle that shapes capital allocation, network architecture, and strategic positioning across the region.

The Emerging Technology Horizon Scan 2026 issued on 10 June 2026 is described as the FCA's first external publication of its kind. The paper is not regulatory guidance or predictions...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a monetary penalty of £963,900 against South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc following a significant cyber attack that resulted...

Exclusive new data from GCs at the world’s top tech companies has revealed the most important factors governing their choice of external counsel – as well as highlighting the firms most effectively delivering on their demands.

Procurement leaders struggling with margin pressure and outdated cost models need a new approach to product teardowns. This framework transforms traditional teardown events into an AI-enhanced continuous cost intelligence pipeline that delivers real-time component-level insights and competitive benchmarking to drive sourcing strategy and design decisions.

As businesses reconfigure operations across Asia amid escalating trade barriers, export controls, and supply-chain disruption, leading organizations are fundamentally rethinking how they approach risk management. Rather than treating risk as a damage-limitation exercise, forward-thinking companies are embedding it as a core design principle that shapes capital allocation, network architecture, and strategic positioning across the region.

The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital "intermediary services" that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content.

Economic, technological and labor market developments are affecting pay practices across industries around the world, but the impacts being felt aren't all the same.

As we learned to appreciate over the past year or so, virtual goods are intangible assets that can be traded within a virtual economy...

The FCA’s proposals would raise the minimum initial individual penalty for market abuse from £100,000 to £150,000 and applying the existing enforcement framework to crypto asset market abuse offences.

The Emerging Technology Horizon Scan 2026 issued on 10 June 2026 is described as the FCA's first external publication of its kind. The paper is not regulatory guidance or predictions...

The Financial Conduct Authority has released its first comprehensive report examining how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping the U.K. financial services landscape. The report identifies both transformative opportunities and novel risks, from programmable finance and AI-driven customer engagement to synthetic crime and autonomous market manipulation, while positioning the U.K. at a strategic inflection point for technological innovation.