The Competition in Financial Services Summit 2025 - 2nd Annual

Delivering Fresh Insights and Perspectives on the Latest Developments and Specific Challenges Facing Financial Services Sector Competition Specialists.

In-person | 29th April 2025 | Central London

 

Complimentary Attendance for In-House Counsel

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Agenda

Registration
09:00

Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:30

Al Mangan, Partner, Competition & Regulation
Addleshaw Goddard

Keynote: The Treasury’s View on Building Competitiveness and Growth in Financial Services
09:40

Examining Financial Services Developments in the Digital Market: AI, Open Banking, and Tech Investment
10:15

  • Open Banking: Digital ID, account to account payments
  • AI pricing algorithms impact on competition and consumer protection
  • Investment practices from Big Tech
  • How regulators should respond to disruptions in financial services

Simon Burden, Head of Competition Law
NatWest

Sharon Malhi, Partner
Freshfields

Networking and Refreshment Break
11:00

Discussing the Interplay of Regulatory Regimes in Financial Services
11:20

  • Concurrency arrangements and their effectiveness
  • Recent trends in agency focus and enforcement
  • What agencies are diverging on
  • Interplay between consumer duty, financial stability, and competition

Daniela Bowry-Blum, Head of Competition
Santander

Examining Innovation and Competition in Payment Systems
12:05

  • Where is the industry with commercial Variable Recurring Payments?
  • Where are heading on reform of Digital Wallets?
  • How the card schemes are innovating and how this affects payment policy
  • Impacts of investigations into abuse of dominance in the payments systems space
  • Consumer buy-in as a barrier to ensuring competition

Alex Olive, General Counsel
Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)

Adam Scarrott, Director, Issuing and Acceptance
UK Finance

Jack Wilson, VP Policy & Research
TrueLayer

Julia Woodward-Carlton, Partner
Eversheds Sutherland

Networking and Lunch Break
12:50

Assessing Developments in Digital Currencies
13:50

  • Competition implications of digital currencies for payments
  • Developments in the “DigitalEuro”
  • Eco-system risks
  • Global competition

Daniel Schwarz, Senior Associate
Clifford Chance

Examining Competition Litigation and Class Actions Stretching the Boundaries of CPOs and Implications for Financial Services
14:35

  • Will there be a rise in consumer litigation?
  • Looking ahead to cases and the impact of key decisions
  • Key strategic issues for litigation and class actions
  • Mitigating damages and market-wide harm

Networking and Refreshment Break
15:20

Exploring the Impact of Recent Merger Control Developments to Financial Services
15:40

  • Implications of recent tech cases for the financial services sector
  • Novel theories of harm impacting financial services merger
  • Are Killer Acquisitions a real issue?
  • Implications of minority investment in and acquisitions of startup
  • Navigating FDI and FSR regimes in mergers

Bruce Kilpatrick, Partner
Linklaters

Evaluating the Collaboration Between Financial Service Firms on Competition
16:25

  • Ensuring AI large language models maintain compliance on information exchange
  • Understanding how firms and fintech can interact without hindering competition
  • Competition in labour markets: non-competes and no-poaching agreements
  • How financial service firms collaborate to achieve their ESG goals and targets whilst maintaining compliance
  • Collaboration in declining products and services

Natalie Greenwood, Partner
Euclid Law

Tom Usher, Senior Advisor
Macfarlanes

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
17:10

Al Mangan, Partner, Competition & Regulation
Addleshaw Goddard

09:00
Registration
09:30
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Al Mangan - Partner, Competition & Regulation - Addleshaw Goddard
09:40
Keynote: The Treasury’s View on Building Competitiveness and Growth in Financial Services
10:15
Examining Financial Services Developments in the Digital Market: AI, Open Banking, and Tech Investment
  • Open Banking: Digital ID, account to account payments
  • AI pricing algorithms impact on competition and consumer protection
  • Investment practices from Big Tech
  • How regulators should respond to disruptions in financial services
Simon Burden - Head of Competition Law - NatWest
Sharon Malhi - Partner - Freshfields
11:00
Networking and Refreshment Break
11:20
Discussing the Interplay of Regulatory Regimes in Financial Services
  • Concurrency arrangements and their effectiveness
  • Recent trends in agency focus and enforcement
  • What agencies are diverging on
  • Interplay between consumer duty, financial stability, and competition
Daniela Bowry-Blum - Head of Competition - Santander
12:05
Examining Innovation and Competition in Payment Systems
  • Where is the industry with commercial Variable Recurring Payments?
  • Where are heading on reform of Digital Wallets?
  • How the card schemes are innovating and how this affects payment policy
  • Impacts of investigations into abuse of dominance in the payments systems space
  • Consumer buy-in as a barrier to ensuring competition
Alex Olive - General Counsel - Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)
Adam Scarrott - Director, Issuing and Acceptance - UK Finance
Jack Wilson - VP Policy & Research - TrueLayer
Julia Woodward-Carlton - Partner - Eversheds Sutherland
12:50
Networking and Lunch Break
13:50
Assessing Developments in Digital Currencies
  • Competition implications of digital currencies for payments
  • Developments in the “DigitalEuro”
  • Eco-system risks
  • Global competition
Daniel Schwarz - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance
14:35
Examining Competition Litigation and Class Actions Stretching the Boundaries of CPOs and Implications for Financial Services
  • Will there be a rise in consumer litigation?
  • Looking ahead to cases and the impact of key decisions
  • Key strategic issues for litigation and class actions
  • Mitigating damages and market-wide harm
15:20
Networking and Refreshment Break
15:40
Exploring the Impact of Recent Merger Control Developments to Financial Services
  • Implications of recent tech cases for the financial services sector
  • Novel theories of harm impacting financial services merger
  • Are Killer Acquisitions a real issue?
  • Implications of minority investment in and acquisitions of startup
  • Navigating FDI and FSR regimes in mergers
Bruce Kilpatrick - Partner - Linklaters
16:25
Evaluating the Collaboration Between Financial Service Firms on Competition
  • Ensuring AI large language models maintain compliance on information exchange
  • Understanding how firms and fintech can interact without hindering competition
  • Competition in labour markets: non-competes and no-poaching agreements
  • How financial service firms collaborate to achieve their ESG goals and targets whilst maintaining compliance
  • Collaboration in declining products and services
Natalie Greenwood - Partner - Euclid Law
Tom Usher - Senior Advisor - Macfarlanes
17:10
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
Al Mangan - Partner, Competition & Regulation - Addleshaw Goddard

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