Frances Hodgkins
Frances is a Managing Associate in the Financial Regulation Group. She is experienced in advising a broad range of clients including retail banks, private equity investment houses, payment services firms and electronic money issuers on a mixture of transactional, advisory and contentious matters.
Frances works with clients on a wide spectrum of topics, and has particular experience advising on authorisation applications, perimeter and supervisory matters, and conduct of business requirements.
Frances has also advised on a number of regulatory change projects, including in relation to the implementation of the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and forthcoming changes in the consumer finance space (in particular, in relation to buy-now-pay-later). She has gained significant first hand, practical experience of advising on (and assisting with the management of) such regulatory change projects having spent time on secondment to a large international bank’s regulatory change team and, prior to joining Linklaters, spending a number of years working in-house in a variety of roles at Visa Europe.