FinTech Stories by Taylor Wessing

The tokenisation of financial instruments is moving from crypto experimentation into the heart of institutional finance, as banks, asset managers and infrastructure providers increasingly deploy distributed ledger technology (DLT) to reshape how financial assets are issued, traded and settled.

The regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving as well, from the EU's DLT Pilot Regime and MiCA to the UK's Digital Securities Sandbox and the FCA's fund tokenisation initiatives, alongside bold recent moves in the US that promise to accelerate institutional adoption in the world's largest economy and beyond.

This episode unpacks what tokenisation means in practice, where the market stands today, and how the major jurisdictions are competing to define the rules of the new era. Our host Miroslav Duric is joined by Josh Peschko, Global Head of Compliance & Regulatory Strategy at Talos, a US-based provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, to share insights on tokenising financial instruments in an era of regulatory reform and rapid technological change.

In recent years, online payment fraud is on the rise, with increasingly sophisticated attacks posing growing threats to consumers and financial institutions alike. This new environment represents both a defining challenge and a critical opportunity for the fintech industry. The regulatory landscape is adapting accordingly, as the Third Payment Services Directive (PSD3) and the Payment Services Regulation (PSR) introduce stronger obligations and expectations around fraud prevention for payment service providers operating in the EU.

This episode unpacks the implications of these reforms, alongside the evolving role of AI in both enabling increasingly sophisticated fraud and powering the defences against it. The conversation explores how financial institutions are adapting to a new generation of fraud threats, from social engineering to AI-generated attacks, and what the next wave of prevention technology looks like within an increasingly demanding regulatory framework.

Host Miroslav Duric is joined by Dan Holmes, VP of Product at Feedzai, an AI-native platform focused on fraud and financial crime prevention, to share insights on the challenges and opportunities of tackling online payment fraud in an era of regulatory reform and rapid technological change.

The EU regulatory landscape for crypto-assets is evolving at pace, bringing both clarity and complexity for market participants. This episode unpacks the implications of the MiCA framework, alongside the opportunities and risks associated with stablecoins and their growing role in digital finance.

About the podcast “FinTech Stories”:

Our FinTech experts Verena Ritter-Döring and Miroslav Ðuric talk to guests from all over the world on a bimonthly basis and keep the audience up to date on all important FinTech topics in a quick and easy way.

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In this episode, we dive into the Financial Data Access (FIDA) Regulation and explore what it means for Open Finance in the EU. Our host Miroslav Duric provides an overview of the latest legislative developments around the FIDA proposal, while our guest Wolfram Stacklies, the CTO of WealthAPI, one of the leading API providers in Germany, shares hands-on insights into what FIDA could mean in practice for data access, interoperability, and API implementation.

About the podcast “FinTech Stories”:

Our FinTech experts Verena Ritter-Döring and Miroslav Ðuric talk to guests from all over the world on a bimonthly basis and keep the audience up to date on all important FinTech topics in a quick and easy way.

Get to know our podcasters:

About the podcast “FinTech Stories”:

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