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08:30 - 09:00
Registration & Networking
09:00 - 09:10
Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
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Regulation & Enforcement
09:10 - 10:00
Regulating the Financial Services Sector
- Update from CMA, FCA (including Motor Finance Market study) and PSR
- The Future of Payments Review
- Consumer Duty after DMCC: how will the CMA use its new powers?
- Concurrent regulation: how do the authorities work together?
- Who is best placed to regulate the financial services sector?
- Is there a tension between competition policy and financial stability?
- London's role as a financial centre: is the competition regime helping or hindering?
- Corporate perspectives
- Alex Olive - General Counsel, Payment Systems Regulator
- Mark Bethell - Manager, Competition Enforcement & Strategy, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- Sharon Horwitz - Director, Sector Regulation, Competition and Markets Authority
10:00 - 10:50
Enforcement: Review of Significant National-Level Developments
- Recent developments in enforcement in key jurisdictions including Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and Czech Republic
- How are the authorities using their expanded toolkits when it comes to oligopolistic markets?
- Manon Bert - Legal Adviser, KBC Groep NV
10:50 - 11:10
Morning Coffee Break
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Digital Disruption in the Financial Services
11:10 - 12:00
Open Banking & Open Finance: Where Next?
- Does open banking change how competition law works in the sector?
- How much further should the regulators go in encouraging consumers to shop for financial services providers?
- Review of FCA wholesale data market study
- PSR’s review of open banking in account-to-account payments
- How is big tech using open data? Does it foster or stifle innovation?
- Open banking and open finance: what does the future hold?
- Simon Burden - Head of Competition Law, NatWest Group
- Solomon Osagie - General Counsel, Cashplus
- Russell Mascarenhas - Senior Competition Lawyer, Lloyds Banking Group
12:00 - 12:50
Big Tech, FinTech & AI: Disruption in the Financial Services Sector
12:50 - 13:50
Networking Lunch
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Merger Control & FDI
13:50 - 14:35
Merger Control & FDI: Is Tougher Enforcement Frustrating M&A Activity?
- How are the regulators approaching mergers in the financial services sector?
- Is a tougher enforcement environment frustrating transactions?
- How to plan for the new enforcement landscape:
- Why and where do issues arise?
- How to plan for them
- How to analyse risks from start-up and buyer perspectives?
- Ecosystem theories of harm: how do they apply in the financial services sector?
- Revised market definition
- Foreign Direct Investment including proposals for outbound investment: implications for transactions in the financial services sector
- Private equity and manager control
- Minority interests, partnerships, and collaborations
- Ross Evans - Special Counsel, Covington & Burling
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State Aid
14:35 - 15:00
The Impact of State Aid Rules for Banks in Difficulty
- Ela Glowicka - Principal, E.CA Economics
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Cartels, Private Enforcement & Horizontal Cooperation
15:00 - 15:40
Update on Cartels, including No-Poach Agreements
- Update on recent cases in the EU and UK, including European bonds case and government bonds cartel
- FCA’s price fixing penalties in exchanges
- No-poach agreements in the financial services sector
- CMA v BMW and Volkswagen: can the CMA require non-UK companies to produce documents?
- What standard is needed to obtain a warrant to search domestic premises?
15:40 - 16:00
Afternoon Networking Break
16:00 - 16:45
Horizontal Developments: Collaboration, Coordination & Information Exchange
- The new Horizontal Block Exemption: practical considerations
- Collaboration & coordination: a look at syndicated loans and co-insurance
- Do’s and don’ts of information exchange
- ESG and sustainability
- How are DG Comp and CMA approaching them?
- A look to US
- Horizontal cooperation and JVs: how to avoid the pitfalls
16:45 - 17:30
Private Enforcement & Follow-on Damages
- Update on FX appeals and credit card interchange litigation
- Car finance class action proceedings
- Umbrella proceedings at the CAT
- Carriage dispute
- Standalone actions
- Calculation of damages
17:30 - 17:35
Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
17:35 - 18:35
Networking Drinks Reception
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