The financial services sector is becoming increasingly reliant on cloud service providers (CSPs) to fulfil its growing data processing and storage needs. Financial services providers in the United States have reportedly had the highest levels of adoption, operating 54 percent of their workloads in the cloud; and according to the European Central Bank, banks spent 13.5 percent more on cloud outsourcing in 2024 than in 2023.

Cheat software has long been a thorn in the side of game publishers. But does it also constitute a copyright infringement? In a landmark decision, issued on July 31, 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that cheat tools that merely manipulate in-game variables in RAM - without altering the program code - do not violate software copyright under EU law.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is currently consulting on its draft guidelines on the sound management of third party risk (Draft Guidelines), which are intended to replace the 2019 guidelines on outsourcing arrangements (2019 Guidelines).

Thailand is advancing its efforts to establish a national, comprehensive framework for artificial intelligence, with new draft legislation currently under consideration.

Plaintiffs say Anthropic used pirated e-books for Claude LLMs.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its judgment on case C 413/23 P European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) v Single Resolution Board (SRB). The CJEU has confirmed that pseudonymised data will not be personal data in all cases. This will be a welcome confirmation for innovative uses of data, including AI models.

Financial regulators globally emphasise the importance of financial entities being operationally resilient, which includes the ability to manage and recover from disruptions caused by their service providers. The topic receives significant attention in the financial services sector because the sector is regulated, with the aim of promoting financial system stability.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our professional lives—whether in recruitment, human resources management, task automation or decision-making. Employees use AI to enhance their efficiency or to assist with repetitive tasks, often without informing their managers.

Agentic AI brings the promise of AI making a range of decisions autonomously. It has been proposed as the way forward for some of the most impactful decisions in our lives: interacting with customers and actioning requests, triaging requests for medical appointments, and hiring candidates — to name a few.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming established practices in multiple areas across all industries, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not immune to this transformation. From the exploratory phase to due diligence, including contract drafting and negotiations, AI enables M&A teams to leverage powerful tools for analysis, automation, and prediction, thus improving efficiency, accuracy, and objectivity.