Retail tech is changing the way consumers interact with retailers and enabling retailers to use innovative technology to increase margin and improve customer experience. No one exemplifies this better than UK homegrown success story Ocado, which has changed the face of online grocery shopping and whose prized robot-warehouse technology is...

All new technologies create opportunities for criminals and it is a constant race to stay ahead of the latest threats

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is able to create content in response to an input prompt. This may involve generating answers in text form in response to a question, or an image or piece of video in response to a text prompt. Generative AI is a form of machine learning that...

The Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) select committee has been hearing evidence from key stakeholder since the long-anticipated draft Media Bill was published on 29 March 2023. Contributors have included public service broadcasters (PSBs), video-on-demand (VoD) providers and industry bodies. The UK government released its overarching impact assessment...

The regulation of crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) is one of the main goals of the EU Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR) that entered into force in June 2023. CASPs have in principle until 30 December 2024 to obtain a MiCAR licence. The most important characteristic of CASPs is that they...

The Singaporean regulations that apply currently to digital payment tokens (DPTs) mainly address anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing risks. DPTs are not regulated for customer safety and soundness or customer protection. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released proposals, detailed in a consultation paper, " Proposed Regulatory Measures for...

A growing logistics sector in an instant delivery world requires bigger and more assets, often in constrained geographies. Logistics operations will need to more closely and comfortably co-exist with the communities in which they are sited. To do that successfully requires the logistics sector to think more about its impact...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a feedback statement on the potential competition impact of Big Tech entry and expansion in retail financial services. The 12 July statement is part of the UK financial regulator's three-year strategy, which was launched in April 2022 to identify the potential benefits and...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released its response to public comments following its October 2022 consultation paper on the proposed regulatory approach for stablecoin-related activities. The MAS response on 15 August 2023 confirms the regulatory approach that will be adopted for single-currency stablecoins (SCS) pegged to the Singapore...