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Travers Smith is a leading full-service law firm, based in London. The firm regularly conducts cutting edge and industry-first work for clients and has carved a market-leading reputation across the payments sector. Travers Smith provides cutting edge advice and offers counselling to clients in relation to the fast-moving and dynamic payments landscape. It’s not just law at Travers Smith. Your business is our business. Independent and bound only by your ambitions, we are wherever you need us to be. Our clients know that we treat their business as our business, their dispute as our dispute, their challenges as ours. They know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to get things done. And they know that we do so in a straight-talking, thoughtful and open way.

Sidley boasts a roster of 2,300 lawyers who wield deep experience in litigation, transactional and regulatory matters spanning over 50 legal disciplines and industries. With 21 offices situated in major commercial and financial capitals around the world, our lawyers possess the cultural awareness and legal acumen needed to advise clients in today’s global economy. 

Sidley has a preeminent payments and fintech practice, advising financial institutions, payment networks, technology companies, processors, high-growth fintechs, and other market participants navigating a fast-changing and increasingly complex regulatory environment. We offer clients a meaningful competitive advantage through strategic regulatory guidance, sophisticated transactional support, and deep sector knowledge across global financial centres. 

We advise on the full spectrum of regulatory and compliance matters, including authorisation and licensing, open banking, financial crime compliance, consumer protection frameworks, conduct requirements, regulatory capital, governance, outsourcing, prudential and conduct reporting, competition and trade issues, data privacy, and cybersecurity. 

We regularly assist clients in structuring, launching, and operating innovative payment products and platforms - from commercial and consumer card programmes to virtual payment instruments, digital wallets, mobile payments, and peer-to-peer services. Our broader fintech capability further strengthens our payments work. With leading expertise in digital currencies, tokens, cryptoassets, distributed ledger applications, instant and faster-payments infrastructure, digital interfaces, and the expanding use of artificial intelligence in financial services, we help clients navigate the increasingly convergent technologies shaping the future of the payments sector. 

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