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Competition Law in the Financial Services Sector

30 Jun 2023

Location: 12:00pm - 1:00pm UK Time Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Competition Law in the Financial Services Sector

Highlights

Our panel will discuss key developments affecting firms in the financial services sector in this webinar. This will cover a wide range of topics, such as the FCA's Wholesale Data Market Study, the FCA's Consumer Duty, the CMA's draft guidance on environmental sustainability agreements, the UK government's proposed changes to the competition law framework, and the impact of big tech on financial services markets.

Our Panel of Experts:

Daniel Schwarz
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance

Daniel Schwarz advises on all areas of competition law including mergers and acquisitions, cartels, abuses of market power, market investigations, and subsidies, as well as FDI reviews.

Daniel is also a Legal Fellow at Cambridge University's Centre for Finance, Technology & Regulation. His research addresses the application of competition policy to FinTech from legal and economic perspectives. He has delivered lectures at Oxford University, HM Treasury, the OECD, the Centre for Competition Policy and the Bank of Spain. He has had articles published on topics including financial services, insurance, merger control and free trade agreements. He is a winner of the Highly Commended prize in the Law Society Competition Section’s Horsfall-Turner essay competition.

He previously worked as a Counsel at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, advising on international finance, trade and competition law. He was an author of a leading IMF report on Rising Corporate Market Power which was launched with Senator Amy Klobuchar and Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. He was previously seconded from Clifford Chance to the Strategy & Competition Division at the Financial Conduct Authority. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Warwick and law from the University of Nottingham.


Daniel Schwarz
Daniel Schwarz Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Daniela Bowry-Blum
Head of Competition
Santander

Daniela leads the competition team at Santander UK, responsible for strategic oversight and management of all competition-related matters across the bank, and chairs the global Santander antitrust working group.  She has also held a number of legal and compliance leadership roles across the bank. Prior to joining Santander, Daniela was an associate at Slaughter and May (London and Brussels) and Shearman & Sterling (London).  Daniela has extensive experience advising on and leading projects across all pillars of UK and EU competition law, including merger and market inquiries, antitrust, enforcement, compliance, litigation, policy and regulation.


Daniela Bowry-Blum
Daniela Bowry-Blum Head of Competition
Santander
Russell Mascarenhas
Senior Competition Lawyer
Lloyds Banking Group

Russell supports strategic progress of all Business Units and functions across Lloyds Banking Group, advising on all aspects of competition law and policy relating to commercial strategy, development of innovative customer solutions and transactions.  This includes providing insightful strategic and practical advice on contract negotiations, merger control, market reviews, investigations, litigation / arbitration, compliance and legislative / regulatory developments.  Notable achievements include advising on the creation and initial public offering of the UK’s eighth biggest high street bank (TSB), the acquisition and integration of Zurich Corporate Savings, Embark Group and Cavendish Online, and a range of significant industry-wide initiatives.  Russell joined the Group in 2013, bringing with him 7 years’ experience from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London and Tokyo offices).  During his time in private practice Russell was a contributing author to Butterworths Competition Law Service.  Russell also has external Board experience through serving in a non-executive capacity for 12 months in a leading mental health NHS Foundation Trust.


Russell Mascarenhas
Russell Mascarenhas Senior Competition Lawyer
Lloyds Banking Group
Helen Ralston-Smith
Partner
Oxera

Helen has 15 years of professional experience in applying economic principles to issues of strategic importance for businesses, predominantly in the context of litigation and competition investigations. Much of her work has focused on high-profile cases such as the European Commission’s investigations into foreign exchange trading and government bond trading, as well as national competition and regulatory authority investigations into parity clauses and allegations of excessive pricing.


Helen Ralston-Smith
Helen Ralston-Smith Partner
Oxera

Agenda

11:55am
Audience Logon
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Daniel Schwarz - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance
12:05pm
Competition Law in the Financial Services Sector
Speakers:
Daniela Bowry-Blum - Head of Competition - Santander
Russell Mascarenhas - Senior Competition Lawyer - Lloyds Banking Group
Helen Ralston-Smith - Partner - Oxera
12:45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Closing Remarks and Summation of Event
Speakers:
Daniel Schwarz - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance

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