James Burnie

Practice Areas

Financial Services Regulation & FinTech

Career

James advises a wide range of firms on all aspects of EU and UK financial services regulation and FinTech. This includes advisory, project and transactional work in connection with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation, the FCA Handbook and PRA Rulebook (including conduct of business obligations and financial promotions), the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and regulatory perimeter questions.

James' work is award winning, receiving runner-up at the Crypto A.M. Awards 2020, “Standout” at the FT Innovation in Legal Expertise Awards 2018; “Highly Commended” at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2017 and “Highly Commended / Runner Up” at Legalweek: The British legal Awards 2017.

Publications

James is co-author of both RegTech and PayTech books whose authorship is crowd-sourced through a voting process and has published on blockchain. He is also co-author of the UK chapter in the First Edition of the Financial Technology Law Review, and co-published the first function-based cryptoasset taxonomy in academic journal Ledger. James has been quoted by Ignites Europe (Financial Times), Regulatory Intelligence and Compliance Complete (Thompson Reuters), Law 360 and the New Money Review.

James is also the host of popular industry podcast Crypto Cast.