His advice focusses on new product structuring and regulatory characterisation, regulatory compliance, and rules and legislation drafting, in the areas of payment services and systems, AML and financial crime, consumer finance, financial promotions and consumer protection, and foreign exchange.

Rory advises a range of crypto-exchanges, issuers and global financial institutions on the legal and regulatory treatment of their services and impacts of legislative changes. He has advised on the development of policy and legal frameworks for the regulation of virtual assets, the issuance of central bank digital currencies, participation in cross-border CBDC networks, and the tokenising of real-world assets. He provides technical expertise for structured finance and securitisation transactions involving cryptoassets.

Rory also provides specialist support in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and on M&A for established and growth financial institutions. He regularly assists clients with ‘change in control’ submissions associated with acquisitions of regulated firms.

Rory’s academic writing and speaking has focussed on regulatory change in payment services, fintech and virtual assets, central bank digital currencies and emerging forms of payment fraud. He is the co-authority of an upcoming book chapter on central bank digital currencies (Oxford University Press, 2024).