On 22 May, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) published the Child Protection Code (CPC) and Risk Mitigation Code (RMC) under the Online Safety Act 2025 (ONSA). Both Codes take effect on 1 June. The Codes arrive at a moment when child online safety is a hotly debated issue across Asia-Pacific. Australia is enforcing its world-first under-16 social media ban, Indonesia has brought minimum age threshold and child safety design obligations into […]
Control over AI becomes existential for European leaders European tech sovereignty agendas are moving rapidly from political rhetoric to concrete policy, with AI at its centre. Governments increasingly view AI not only as a driver of productivity and economic growth, but also as a strategic capability linked to national security. This, in turn, drives their concerns about Europe’s reliance on foreign providers across the AI stack – from advanced semiconductors and compute capacity to frontier […]
AI-Pac is Flint’s digest providing our take on major AI policy and regulatory developments in Asia-Pacific. In a fast-moving environment, this newsletter is designed to help you stay on top of the regulatory agenda and consider what it means for your business. Please see here for our previous blogs, spanning 2024 and 2025. In each […]
Prediction markets are moving from the periphery of finance into the regulatory mainstream, emerging as a tool for pricing uncertainty in real time. They challenge a core assumption of financial systems: that markets exist to price assets. Instead, they assign probabilities to future events—creating a new layer of market-based intelligence for capital allocation, risk management […]
Six policy trends shaping Europe’s quantum industry For decades, the quantum sector has been the preserve of physicists and research laboratories. Today, quantum is squarely on the European political agenda. In his influential report on the future of European competitiveness, Mario Draghi noted that the quantum sector could contribute up to €850 billion to the […]
Infrastructure: the physical foundations of digital ambition As digital and AI ambitions accelerate across the APAC region, governments are increasingly focused on the physical infrastructure that enables technological progress. In the coming year, APAC governments will continue to place heavy emphasis on building “sovereign” digital infrastructure that is resilient to increasingly unpredictable geopolitical shifts. Key areas […]
Last year, we published a report looking at the value of international tech diffusion to the EU economy. In this follow-up report, Digital services and SME productivity in the EU, we examine how technology diffusion plays out at the firm level. It focuses on the productivity benefits for SMEs from adopting digital tools, using survey data […]
On 17 July, the European Commission launched its public consultation on the Digital Fairness Act, firing the starting gun on what is shaping up to be the most consequential piece of EU digital legislation in President von der Leyen’s second mandate. This upcoming law will seek to update European consumer protection law for the digital […]
The UK’s data centre policy and regulatory environment is undergoing a period of rapid transformation. Demand for data centre capacity as part of global AI infrastructure is expected to scale exponentially. The UK government is seeking to establish itself as a global destination for data centre investment, as a route to the growth of the […]
In December Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves went searching for growth in an unusual place – among the UK’s regulators. Each received an early Christmas present in the form of a letter asking for pro-growth ideas. Since then, the Government has mounted pressure on regulators to eliminate barriers and go for growth. First with the […]
Flint sees a pivotal moment for the tech sector and its investors to shape the UK policy and regulatory environment, enabling technology innovation and economic progress with the support of a government that is prioritising growth. Overview The political and regulatory risks and opportunities for investors in tech and tech-enabled services have increased markedly in […]
The regulatory landscape for online content in Asia-Pacific looks set to become increasingly fragmented and complex over the course of 2025. This blog cuts through the noise to distill five key trends in online content regulation. It outlines essential steps that businesses - both major platforms and smaller digital services - must take to prepare […]
