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Supersectors: lessons from Britain’s comparative advantages for a 2025 UK trade and industrial strategy

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What should we expect from Labour’s new shadow minister, Peter Kyle, on tech policy?

UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has reshuffled his front bench team and made a surprise appointment of Peter Kyle as Shadow Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary. Conan D’Arcy is...

Global Month Ahead: G20 Leaders’ Summit, Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address, and the IEA’s inaugural Critical Minerals Summit.

On this month’s episode of the Global Month Ahead, Associate Director Isabelle Trick is joined by Senior Associate Ed King, Europe Director Tom White, and Associate Giulia Pasquali to discuss...

What's next for the regulation of the gaming sector?

This week on Top in Tech, Conan D'Arcy is joined by Josh Bates to discuss the future of regulation for the gaming sector. Following the recent twists and turns of...

Will Generative AI be welcomed or banned in education?

With Generative AI seemingly growing in popularity, Conan D’Arcy is joined by Johnny Luk to discuss how the sector, policymakers and the public are reacting to this technology. This episode...

Biodiversity Credits: Are they the key to unlocking finance for nature?

This week, Senior Associate Alice Brown is joined by Mariana Sarmiento, CEO of Terrasos and Dorothée Herr, Senior Associate at Nature Finance to unpack the growing momentum around biodiversity credits...

What could EU tech policy look like after the European elections?

This week on Top in Tech, we're completing our mini-series exploring significant elections in the UK, US, and EU and their possible impacts on technology policy and regulation. Conan D'Arcy...

Biodiversity credits – the new wave of climate finance

Though there is growing momentum globally for governments and businesses to channel financial flows away from nature negative, and towards nature positive activities, we still have a way to go...

What would a DeSantis or Trump victory in 2024 mean for US tech policy?

This week on Top in Tech, Conan D'Arcy is joined by Sonia Vasconcellos to discuss the tech policy implications of a Republican victory in the 2024 US presidential election. What...

Are investor assumptions around NHS insourcing set to be challenged?

Investors have long been active in the NHS insourcing market, but does the new NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and a potential Labour government challenge existing assumptions around the market’s...

Global Month Ahead: BRICS Summit, G20 Health Ministers Meeting, and Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation Summit

On this episode of the Global Month Ahead, we preview the BRICS Summit, G20 Health Ministers Meeting, and Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation Summit.

Changing faces: The differing approaches to regulating facial recognition technology in the UK and the EU

Following recent UK government action on regulating artificial intelligence, there is one stark deviation from concurrent discussions in the European Union: the regulation of facial recognition and biometric technology. In...

What would a Labour government mean for UK tech policy?

This week on Top in Tech, we're kicking off a new mini-series exploring significant elections in the UK, US, and EU and their possible impacts on technology policy and regulation...

The future of the EU Customs Union

The European Commission’s new proposals for EU Customs Union reform are designed to deliver a more coherent and integrated Customs Union. Since the creation of the Customs Union in 1968...

Global taxation in the tech sector: what's changed and what's still to come

This week, Conan D'Arcy is joined by International Policy Practice Director Jon Garvie to explore global taxation in the tech sector, the issue that sparked Europe’s techlash. Conan and Jon...

What to expect from a first Labour budget: headline choices on fiscal policy

Don’t expect a “big bang” first budget A Labour victory at the next general election would bring expectations of a major change in approach to fiscal policy. However, there are...

Artificial Intelligence: navigating a fragmented global policy landscape

The launch of ChatGPT in November not only disrupted the tech sector commercially, sparking a wave of competition in generative AI, but also reignited the policy debate over AI governance...

As Microsoft moves to acquire Activision, what's next for the FTC and antitrust?

This week on Top in Tech, Senior Practice Director Conan D'Arcy is joined by Senior Associate Ugonma Nwankwo to unpack the Federal Trade Commission's courtroom loss in its bid to...

Why the time is right to pay attention to India’s increasing global influence

This week on the Global Counsel Podcast, Senior Adviser Tiffany McDonald is joined by Associates Ross Nugent and Ed King to unpack India's growing significance in global trade and diplomatic...