The Linklaters Podcast
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide. Disclaimer: Podcasts are not legal advice and the views expressed in this podcast are not the views of Linklaters LLP.
Episodes
Richard Hay, Peter Church, Olivia Murphy & Megan Gosling
The recent incident in which an OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face reveals both the capability of frontier AI models and the limitations of guardrails and sandboxes to contain AI agents. In this podcast episode Peter Church explains what happened and Richard Hay and Olivia Murphy consider the implications for agentic commerce.
What can hostage negotiation teach us about working better together? In this episode, we speak to former Metropolitan Police hostage and crisis negotiator Nicky Perfect about the human skills behind high-stakes conversations. From first impressions and active listening to handling emotion, building trust and approaching difficult discussions with empathy, Nicky sha...
In this podcast, Sara Feijao explains the top five things you need to know about the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD / CS3D), which will apply to all in-scope companies from 26 July 2029. EU Member States have until 26 July 2028 to transpose the Directive into national law.
In this podcast, Sara Feijao explains the top five things you need to know about the EU’s Forced Labour Regulation (FLR), which will start applying on 14 December 2027.
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Georgina Kon & Olivia Murphy
As AI agents begin to shop for us, payment transactions will become faster and more frequent. In this podcast, Georgie Kon explains how the rise of agentic payments will force merchants and payments firms to look again at their operations, contractual arrangements and regulatory compliance.
Listen to all episodes on our Payments podcast webpage.
In this podcast, Satindar Dogra, Elizabeth Raultson, Anke Krause and Sarah Martin discuss what the PFAs litigation landscape in the US, EU and UK looks like at the moment and how it could develop.
Olivia Murphy & Simon Treacy
The Financial Conduct Authority commissioned the Mills Review to explore how AI will transform retail financial services by 2030. In this podcast episode Olivia Murphy shares key points from the review about how agentic payments could transform consumer journeys.
Listen to all episodes on our Payments podcast webpage.
Speakers: Lila Vialat, Ian Rodwell and Rahim Hirji
What happens when AI assumes aspects of our jobs, while also reshaping how we think about experience, expertise and our sense of self at work? In this latest episode, we are joined by Rahim Hirji, author of Super Skills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI, to explore the changing nature of work, the unbundling of roles and the rise of ‘synthet...
Episode 2: Superfunds considerations: the trustee perspective and market outlook // Pensions
Superfunds, or DB consolidators, are now an option for trustees and sponsors considering their endgame strategy.
In this two-part podcast series, Linklaters and pensions consolidation specialist TPT ...
Superfunds, or DB consolidators, are now an option for trustees and sponsors considering their endgame strategy. In this two-part podcast series, Linklaters and pensions consolidation specialist TPT Retirement Solutions, which is developing a superfund designed to support run-on, explore what superfunds are, why s...
Crypto-native firms are not the only ones needing to prepare for the UK’s market abuse regime for cryptoassets. Peter Bevan and Sherryn Buehlmann explain how MARC will have a wide reach.
In this podcast, Aileen Buchanan (Linklaters), Lauren Bachtel (Linklaters) and Belinda Valledy (ERM) explore how to address issues relating to PFAs in M&A transactions, including due diligence, transaction documents and insurance.
In this podcast, Claudia Harper, Lauren Bachtel and Sebastian Meyn provide a high-level overview of what PFAs (also known as “forever chemicals”) are, how they are regulated in the UK, EU and US, and what changes are afoot.
Stablecoins are competing to be the future of digital money. Sam Quicke and Sophia Le Vesconte explain why the UK’s approach to regulating stablecoins depends on where the issuer is based.
The UK’s cryptoasset regulatory regime will be a major consideration for current and future tokenisation projects. Sam Quicke and Sophia Le Vesconte explore how the scope of the regime may impact different types of digital assets.
Speakers: Lila Vialat, Ian Rodwell, Dr Sylwia Ciuk and Dr Kay Galpin
Far from being a temporary phenomenon, it now seems that hybrid working is here to stay. But what does that mean for young people entering the workplace? Do they experience it as liberation or something more problematic? In this episode, we are joined by Dr Sylwia Ciuk and Dr Kay Galpin from Oxford Brookes University who ta...
Episode 8: New EU anti-money laundering regime
In Episode 8, Paloma Fierro and Stefaan Loosveld look at how the new EU anti‑money laundering package will work in practice. They explain the shift to a Single AML Rulebook with directly applicable rules across all Member States, the creation of AMLA as a powerful EU supervisor for up to 40 major financial institutions, and key changes such as lower customer due diligence thresholds, e...
The Financial Conduct Authority’s application period for cryptoasset licences opens in September 2026 and closes in February 2027. Harry Eddis and Bethan Poole explain why this application window matters and what happens to applications made after it closes.
The UK’s new crypto regime starts to apply on 25 October 2027. Peter Bevan and Olivia Murphy run through the key points to note.
The UK’s new crypto regulatory framework builds on existing rules. James Morris and Frances Hodgkins give an overview of how cryptoassets are already regulated in the UK.
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