The financial sector and technology have become inextricably linked – a combination that brings challenges as well as a lot of opportunities. Startups are entering the market with cutting-edge products, but do they also manage to get enough of a market share? The challenges are different for established financial firms. How can they increase or at least maintain their market share through innovation? Strategic choices need to be made: build things up yourself, enter into partnerships or acquire FinTechs? All these decisions need to be made in a highly regulated environment where rules of financial supervision, IT security and data and privacy partly determine companies’ success.
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Our expertise
BarentsKrans’ FinTech & Payments team advises clients proactively and pragmatically to become or remain successful while ensuring compliance with the increasingly complex and changing regulations in this field. In this regard, we actively consider what opportunities new regulations present.
BarentsKrans stands out for its unique combination of specialists in financial law, data compliance, IT contracts, and mergers and acquisitions. We work in small, close-knit teams and with a high level of partner involvement.
Our clients range from banks, insurers, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, investment firms, crypto service providers and pension funds to investors (private equity and venture capital) and IT providers with a focus on the financial sector.
