Banking & FinTech

Banking & FinTech

The group has substantial expertise in the fintech sector, an area in which Edwin Jacobs is highly recommended.

Legal 500

Digital innovation in financial services is a must for banks and financial institutions. Customers expect seamless mobile and flexible solutions from their bank, while keeping the IT, legal and compliance costs under control.

Our legal team of fintech specialists can assist you with the legal and the business challenges and  delivers pragmatic commercial solutions. Several of our lawyers have extensive experience as inhouse counsel or are involved in the start-up and scale-up financial scene.  

Timelex is an associate partner of B-hive, the fintech hub with offices in Brussels, London, New York and Tel Aviv.

Our banking & FinTech clients

  • Banks, financial institutions
  • Payment service providers
  • Payment initiation service providers (PISP)
  • Account information service providers (AISP)
  • Technical payment service providers
  • Software manufacturers
  • Platforms
  • eCommerce, webshops
  • FinTech startups and scale-ups

Our services for banking & FinTech

  • Legal and regulatory compliance when going from paper to digital, digitalisation of banking  business model and business processes
  • Cooperation between financial institutions / banks and FinTech’s
  • Electronic signature and digital archiving
  • Internet distribution, online selling, social media, mobile banking
  • Privacy and data protection (GDPR), Big Data, DPO as a Service, Outsourced DPO
  • Contracts, outsourcing, service level agreement (SLA), cloud
  • Outsourcing and advice implementation new software
  • Contract negotiations with IT suppliers
  • Consumer protection, legally compliant customer journey
  • Blockchain, distributed ledger
  • Artificial intelligence, robot advice
  • Legal issues in the payment ecosystem
  • Payment services (PSD2)
  • mobile wallets
  • virtual currency, electronic money  
  • Dispute resolution – litigation – mediation – arbitration
  • Cybercrime and cybersecurity

‘Timelex has a unique position in the Belgian market. The combination of financial regulatory, data protection and IT specialists creates a strong fintech profile for advising on PSD2 licensing and contracts-based work’

Legal 500