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Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Outlook for 2025: What Financial Services Firms Need To Know
January 15, 2025
Last year saw many developments across the worldwide data privacy and cybersecurity landscape, including in the EU/UK, and this momentum shows no sign of slowing in 2025. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters its seventh year in May 2025. New cybersecurity and operational resilience legislation and related guidance are coming into force to regulate new and challenging technologies, several of which will affect financial services firms.
This article first appeared on Thomson Reuters on January 16, 2025 and can be viewed here.
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