FinTech Guide 2026 : UK-wide
Ranked Individuals
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Hogan Lovells has an extremely strong reputation in the UK market. The firm advises clients on regulatory matters concerning AML, banking and payments, including Consumer Duty Principle compliance. Its clients include e-money businesses, banks, retailers and remittance providers.
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Hogan Lovells advised digital wallet provider Airtm on the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation and UK proposed stablecoin regulation.
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Hogan Lovells has a market leading regulatory practice. Lawyers are very responsive, knowledgeable and have the ability to tap into its wide network around jurisdictions.
The team has been consistently responsive and helpful. It regularly offers practical, bespoke advice as well as acting as a rational sounding board to discuss challenging day-to-day issues.
FinReg is a key strength: Hogan Lovells is top of the table for that with its broad experience and bench strength. On the corporate side, it is very pragmatic and strong on delivery.
Hogan Lovells is good at talking through issues and presenting them in a business-friendly way. Its communication with clients is really good; it is willing to take a commercial view on things.
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John Salmon is a technology lawyer with considerable experience of working with clients on blockchain and crypto-asset matters. He also advises on technology procurement and implementation mandates.
John Salmon is very well-connected to the FCA; he is very practical, smart and a creative problem solver.
John Salmon is very knowledgeable and understands client needs; he is very helpful to provide some perspective on the industry.
John Salmon is absolutely brilliant in areas like operational resilience, insurance as well as blockchain and crypto.
Jonathan Chertkow is head of the global financial services team at Hogan Lovells and a specialist in payments regulatory work. He advises FinTechs and challenger banks on regulatory compliance matters.
Jonathan Chertkow is consistently responsive and knowledgeable about the topics we are discussing. He is a very helpful and trusted adviser.
Michael Thomas is one of Hogan Lovells' lead lawyers for work involving blockchains and cryptocurrency. Thomas works with crypto-native companies and clients from the traditional financial services sector on regulatory matters.
Michael Thomas is great on the challenger banking side. He has real expertise there.
Michael Thomas is very approachable and good at problem solving. He draws parallels with good scenarios and draws from his experience. He is very client friendly.
Bryony Widdup works with blockchain-based offerings and digital assets providers on a range of transactions. Her work includes token structuring and issuance, fundraising and corporate transactional structuring.
Bryony Widdup is a notable name in the team. She is a phenomenal support to the community and is very much at intersection of developing technical aspects and also best practices for industry.
Bryony Widdup is great on the digital assets piece and blockchain projects.
James Black advises traditional and neo-banks in the FinTech market. His experience covers regulatory issues such as buy-now-pay-later technologies, investments due diligence, embedded finance products and consumer credit questions.
His particular skill is that he has a very big brain for financial services. He knows everything and is very good to work with.
James retains a lot of knowledge for the client. He is very aware of what is happening and he puts everything into context.
James Black is great on SMEs, buy now, pay later and challenger banks issues.
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