AFB Seminar: Data Use and Access Act 2025 – What are the Implications for AFB Members?

The UK has completed its post-Brexit reform of data protection following the passing into law of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) on 19 June 2025.

You are invited to attend an in-person seminar hosted by Ashurst, which will explore the implications of the DUAA for non-UK headquartered banks. The session will provide practical guidance on what your organisation’s immediate next steps should be, and will consider the anticipated secondary legislation.

Why attend?

• To understand the key reforms to Data Protection and Privacy in the UK. Attendees will hear how the DUAA will impact existing data protection legislation, such as the UK GDPR, with a focus on what these changes mean for banks and financial institutions
• To gain insights into the DUAA’s new framework for smart data schemes, including its scope, the practical considerations for your organisation and how it compares to the EU’s digital identity initiatives
• To learn how the DUAA introduces a framework for trusted digital verification systems
• To understand the expanded opportunities for AI-driven decision-making under the DUAA, and the potential impact on your operations and compliance strategies
• To examine the DUAA’s reforms to marketing and cookie practices and what they mean in practice for cookie notices, cookie consent mechanisms and banners
• Gain an overview of the UK’s data protection regulator’s (ICO) enhanced investigative powers and the new requirements for data subject complaint procedures

Who should attend?
This session is aimed primarily at those in Compliance, Business and Legal.

Speakers

Rhiannon Webster – Partner, Digital Economy Transactions
Rhiannon has 20 years’ experience advising on information law both in the UK and on international projects. She advises on a full range of data protection issues to a wide range of clients including financial services companies, technology companies, through to health providers. Rhiannon is commended for offering strategic commercial advice on data protection compliance obligations, including in the context of new technologies such as cloud services, telematics, big data initiatives and the internet of things.

Rhiannon also advises on data security breach management and regulatory enforcement action including representing clients in their communications with the ICO and other regulators. Rhiannon has worked closely with the Information Commissioners Office including being the legal expert on their citizens jury into the explainability of AI.

Shehana Cameron-Perera – Senior Associate, Digital Economy Transactions
Shehana specialises in information law. She has extensive experience in advising global UK and international clients on all areas of data protection including complex data sharing and data transfer queries, data protection impact assessments, dealing with and responding to data subject requests and ICO complaints and drafting internal data protection policies.

Shehana has considerable in-house experience, working closely with in-house legal and compliance teams. She has previously undertaken secondments to an insurer and global broker, a secondment as Privacy Manager to a large financial institution client and a secondment to a payment service provider’s Global Privacy team. Her numerous secondments have given Shehana a real understanding of in-house priorities and exposure to a broad range of queries and strategic work streams that would ordinarily be handled in-house, requiring her to directly advise the business and senior stakeholders providing both technical legal expertise and pragmatic commercial advice.

Please note you will receive a confirmation of your booking via email within 24 hours. Should you not receive a confirmation, please contact AFB to double-check if your booking was successful.

Logistics

Fee: Included in AFB membership (no fee)
Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025
Time: 08:30 – 10:15 (registration & refreshments from 08:30 – 09.00)
Location: Ashurst, London Fruit & Wool Exchange, 1 Duval Square, E1 6PW

There will be ample opportunity for questions throughout the session. If you would like to submit a question in advance or have any specific areas you’d like the session to address, please email secretariat@foreignbanks.org.uk.