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Yasmin Johal

Associate

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Yasmin Johal

Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, Punjabi

Yasmin Johal is an Associate at CMS specialising in FinTech and sits in the Financial Services Regulation team. Yasmin provides specialist advice and helps shape developments in the FinTech and financial services industries internationally. She has worked within investment banking, corporate banking, private banking and fiduciary management teams across both the UK and US financial markets.

Yasmin is a thought leader in the FinTech space and is a long-standing contributor to the Harrington Starr award-winning FinTech Magazine, WeAreTechWomen and WeAreTheCity publications, where she writes provoking and innovative thought leadership on the FinTech industry. She is also a tech speaker, podcast host and an advocate for increasing female & BAME representation in fintech. She has authored industry thought leadership pieces on financial regulation, FinTech & innovation and D&I. 

Yasmin has received multiple awards for her work in FinTech and D&I, including:

  1.  Rising Women in Crypto Powerlist 2022 – Wirex.
  2. Women in FinTech Powerlist awarded 2022 - Innovate Finance.
  3. Highly Commended, DE&I Champion 2021 - Harrington Starr’s FinTech Awards.
  4. Standout 35 Star in the Women in FinTech Powerlist awarded 2021 - Innovate Finance.
  5. #TechWomen100 2020 Award Winner - WeAreTechWomen.
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Education

  • 2021 - CS50 for Lawyers, Harvard University
  • 2017 - MSc Legal Practice Course with MSc in Law, Business and Management, University of Law
  • 2016 - Postgraduate Certificate in International Business, University of Chester, New York
  • 2015 - LLB Law with Transnational Legal Studies, King’s College London, London
  • 2014 – Transitional Legal Studies, Georgetown University
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08/06/2023
FCA pub­lishes fi­nal rules and sup­ple­ment­ary draft guid­ance on fin­an­cial...
On 8 June 2023, the UK Gov­ern­ment con­firmed that the fin­an­cial pro­mo­tion re­gime should ap­ply to cryptoassets from 8 Oc­to­ber 2023. As part of im­ple­ment­ing this new re­gime the Fin­an­cial Con­duct Au­thor­ity...
Law-Now FinTech
08/06/2023
FCA pub­lishes fi­nal rules and sup­ple­ment­ary draft guid­ance on fin­an­cial...
On 8 June 2023, the UK Gov­ern­ment con­firmed that the fin­an­cial pro­mo­tion re­gime should ap­ply to cryptoassets from 8 Oc­to­ber 2023. As part of im­ple­ment­ing this new re­gime the Fin­an­cial Con­duct Au­thor­ity...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
30/05/2023
UAE Se­cur­it­ies and Com­mod­it­ies Au­thor­ity in­tro­duces two new vir­tu­al as­set...
The UAE has seen a num­ber of de­vel­op­ments in the vir­tu­al as­sets space over the last 18 months, in­clud­ing the UAE des­ig­nat­ing the Se­cur­it­ies Com­mod­it­ies Au­thor­ity (“SCA”) as the UAE’s fed­er­al reg­u­lat­or...
Law-Now FinTech
30/05/2023
UAE Se­cur­it­ies and Com­mod­it­ies Au­thor­ity in­tro­duces two new vir­tu­al as­set...
The UAE has seen a num­ber of de­vel­op­ments in the vir­tu­al as­sets space over the last 18 months, in­clud­ing the UAE des­ig­nat­ing the Se­cur­it­ies Com­mod­it­ies Au­thor­ity (“SCA”) as the UAE’s fed­er­al reg­u­lat­or...
Regzone
17/02/2023
VARA is­sues Reg­u­la­tions for Dubai Vir­tu­al As­sets Re­gime
On 7 Feb­ru­ary 2023, the Vir­tu­al As­sets Reg­u­lat­ory Au­thor­ity (“VARA”) pub­lished its vir­tu­al as­sets reg­u­la­tions and as­so­ci­ated rule­books (“VA Frame­work”). The VA Frame­work takes im­me­di­ate ef­fect...
Law-Now
03/02/2023
UK Gov­ern­ment pub­lishes con­sulta­tion to bring cryptoassets with­in the scope...
On 1st Feb­ru­ary 2023, His Majesty’s Treas­ury (“HMT”) pub­lished a com­pre­hens­ive con­sulta­tion pa­per (“Con­sulta­tion Pa­per”) that sets out the UK Gov­ern­ment’s (“Gov­ern­ment”) in­ten­tion to bring...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
26/01/2023
UAE Cab­in­et is­sues de­cision re­gard­ing vir­tu­al as­sets reg­u­la­tion with­in...
To add fur­ther to the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ing nature of the reg­u­lat­ory peri­met­er for vir­tu­al as­sets (“VA”) in the United Ar­ab Emir­ates (“UAE”), the UAE Cab­in­et (“Cab­in­et”) has in­tro­duced a new...
Law-Now
25/01/2023
UAE Cab­in­et is­sues de­cision re­gard­ing vir­tu­al as­sets reg­u­la­tion with­in...
Ob­ject­ives As set out in the De­cision, the ob­ject­ives of the new re­gime will be to: for­mu­late le­gis­la­tion to gov­ern the VA sec­tor and its ser­vice pro­viders; cre­ate a li­cens­ing re­gime for VAs; align with...
Regzone
28/12/2022
FCA out­lines plans for the in­tro­duc­tion of a reg­u­lat­ory gate­way for firms...
Fol­low­ing HM Treas­ury’s pro­pos­al to pro­hib­it au­thor­ised firms from ap­prov­ing fin­an­cial pro­mo­tions from un­au­thor­ised per­sons, un­less they have suc­cess­fully passed through a new “reg­u­lat­ory gate­way”...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
21/12/2022
FCA out­lines plans for the in­tro­duc­tion of a reg­u­lat­ory gate­way for firms...
Back­ground Un­der sec­tion 21 of FSMA, cur­rently any firm that is au­thor­ised un­der the Fin­an­cial Ser­vices and Mar­kets Act 2000 (FSMA), may ap­prove a fin­an­cial pro­mo­tion by an­oth­er un­au­thor­ised per­son. However...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
02/11/2022
Changes to crypto reg­u­la­tion on the ho­ri­zon
On 20 Ju­ly 2022, the Fin­an­cial Ser­vices and Mar­kets Bill (the Bill) was in­tro­duced in­to Par­lia­ment.  The Bill is the largest piece of fin­an­cial ser­vices le­gis­la­tion for over two dec­ades and cov­ers...
Law-Now FinTech
02/11/2022
Changes to crypto reg­u­la­tion on the ho­ri­zon
What was stated in the ori­gin­al ver­sion of the Bill in re­la­tion to crypto­cur­ren­cies? Fol­low­ing on from the Gov­ern­ment’s con­sulta­tion on the UK’s ap­proach to the reg­u­la­tion of cryptoassets, the ori­gin­al...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
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