Fintech, Payment Systems & Crypto-Finance

The firm intervenes in the field of Fintech, Payment Systems and Crypto-Finance, having all the necessary expertise and synergies required to offer a complete range of services and to meet client and market needs and the expectations of clients, in particular in terms  of:

  • Payment services and e-money
  • Electronic money, payment systems, networks, alternative payment methods, etc.
  • Blockchain, crypto-finance and crypto-assets (STO/ NFT/ Stablecoins, etc.)
  • Participatory Finance
  • Insurtech
  • Banking data portability
  • Digital identity
  • Digitalisation of processes and relationships
  • Algorithmic and artificial intelligence services
  • IT and IT contracts
  • Connected objects

The team has all the necessary expertise to deal with any questions and issues that Fintech, Payment Systems and Crypto-Finance may raise, in particular in respect of:

  • Compliance in terms of offers, canvassing or advertising
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Fight against anti-money laundering
  • Consumer law
  • Data protection, RGPD compliance and cyber security
  • Transactional aspects, including acquisitions, mergers, cooperation agreements, outsourcing, risk and due diligence audits, accounting and tax aspects
  • The firm also assists its clients in the setting up, transformation and acquisition of regulated entities, including in interactions with supervisory and regulatory authorities.

The firm acts both in national and international matters.

Examples include:

  • Counsel to a CAC 40 group in the negotiation and drafting of contracts and terms and conditions in relation to its payment solutions for its retail activities.
  • Assisting a retail group in the issuance of a stablecoin.
  • Assisting a banking group in the digitalisation of its processes for entering into relation with institutional clients.
  • Assisting a client for the tracing and the seizure of a large quantity of bitcoins.
  • Assisting a client in the context of the affiliation of a digital bank to a credit institution.
  • Numerous legal consultations in the field of crypto-assets.

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