Subcontractors, security, and audit and termination rights will require special consideration under forthcoming EBA outsourcing guidelines. Richard Butterwick, Deborah J. Kirk, Fiona M. Maclean, Samantha Peacock, Kirsty Watkins, and Catherine Campbell Recent growth in divestiture and carve-out deals in the M&A landscape, including the financial sector, has brought renewed focus to transitional services agreements (TSAs), which … Continue Reading
The guidelines create new obligations for financial, payment, and electronic money institutions that will impact cloud outsourcing and deployment of FinTech. By Fiona M. Maclean and Laura Holden On 25 February 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a final report on its draft guidelines on outsourcing arrangements (Guidelines). The report followed the EBA’s publication … Continue Reading
By Fiona Maclean, Stuart Davis and Charlotte Collins Cloud services come with the promise of many benefits for the financial services sector. Cloud computing offers large-scale and cost-effective solutions for data storage and efficient processing and is also the underlying technology for many FinTech platforms. As with a lot of new technology, however, financial institutions … Continue Reading
By Christian McDermott, Calum Docherty, Stuart Davis and Anne Mainwaring The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its consultation document on security measures for operational and security risks under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The WannaCry ransomware attack that swept across the globe last week revealed the destructive and indiscriminate nature of cyber threats. It attacked … Continue Reading
