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CompLaw: Financial Services
September 2025
London, United Kingdom
September 2025|London, United Kingdom

CompLaw: Financial Services

Featuring more regulators and more in-house counsel than ever before. Ensure you are up to date on EU & UK policy initiatives and compliance strategies.

Regulation, Enforcement, Open Banking, FinTech, Mergers, Cartels, Horizontals & Litigation - we have it all covered!

Thank you to all those who attended in 2024!

If you're interested in purchasing recordings of the conference sessions, please email Yasmin.Hassan@informa.com.

We have started putting the 2025 programme together. If you would like to be kept up to date, you can register your interest by downloading this year's agenda here.

Comprehensive insight into the key 2024 challenges:

Financial Services Regulation

An update on the latest initiatives from the CMA, FCA and PSR, including consumer duty after the DMCC and other concurrent regulation developments.

Followed by some valuable insight from the European Commission.

Enforcement: National-Level Developments

A review of recent developments in enforcement in key jurisdictions to ensure our delegates have a truly pan-European perspective.

We then considered how the authorities are using their expanded toolkits.

Open Banking & Open Finance

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? How is big tech using open data? Our panel of expert speakers covered these key questions.

Big Tech, FinTech & AI

An analysis on the impact of the DMA and UK DMCC, with a focus on the amendment to the EC's Article 102 in the context of the financial services sector. We then examined how banks are using AI, how regulators are approaching it and where the competition law risks lie.


Merger Control & FDI

In this practical session, we examined whether a tougher enforcement environment is frustrating transactions, how to plan for this new landscape, including why and where issues arise, how to plan for them. And finally, how to analyse risks.

Horizontal Developments

During this practical session, attendees heard from in-house counsel on the practical implications of the new Horizontal Block Exemption, do's and don'ts of information exchange, issues surrounding ESG and sustainability and how to avoid the pitfalls when it comes to horizontal cooperation and JVs.

Connect with the financial services community post-conference!

Following the conference, our attendees joined us for a drinks reception to catch up with their peers and make new connections in an informal setting.

CompLaw: Financial Services in numbers:

years as the leading review of competition law in the financial services sector

speakers sharing their insights

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in-house counsel & regulator attendees

Sponsorship Opportunities

We have a number of exclusive and innovative sponsorship and speaking options, to help you demonstrate thought leadership.

For more information please contact Enes Duzen on Enes.Duzen@informa.com or call +44 (0) 20 8052 0469.

CPD Certification - 6.5 CPD Hours Available

Attendance at this conference may be used to claim CPD from your professional body. The number of hours, or points may vary from body to body. Upon request, we will supply you with a certificate of attendance to facilitate your CPD submission with your professional membership organisation.

Economist and Competition Expert

OECD

The Competition Law in the Financial Services Sector 2022 event had everything - lively and engaging panel discussions and knowledgeable speakers. The chairs were excellent and brought in the audience for lively Q&A sessions. Definitely the place to be for up-to-date information on competition in the financial services sector.