Oxford Business Law Blog

Follow Oxford Business Law Blog

Filter by
Featured

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
30 Sep 2021
3 min to read

The Role of Disclosure in Green Finance

Tobias H. Tröger | Sebastian Steuer

Anthropogenic climate change is a reality that will impact incrementally on all areas of human life, including economic activity and the social welfare it creates. Policy makers around the globe have...

OBLB categories

  • Commercial Law
29 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Defining Self-Driving Vehicles: Resolving the Ambiguity in Legislation

James Marson | Katy Ferris

Private vehicles with the ability to perform driving tasks typically undertaken by the person behind the wheel are increasing in their prevalence on public roads. These connected and autonomous...

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
29 Sep 2021
1 min to read

Regulating Sustainable Finance in the Dark

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Linn Anker-Sørensen

In our new article (forthcoming in the European Business & Organization Law Review) we analyze the (revised) EU strategy on sustainable finance announced in two steps in April and July 2021. We...

OBLB categories

  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
28 Sep 2021
3 min to read

The 2020 European Short-Selling ban and the Effects on Market Quality

Wolfgang Bessler | Marco Vendrasco

The Covid-19 pandemic had not only a detrimental effect on most economies but also a considerable negative impact on financial markets. In Europe, stock prices declined between 30% and 45% from mid-...

OBLB categories

  • Financial Regulation
28 Sep 2021
4 min to read

India’s Ban on ‘System Providers’: Prioritizing Payment Data Localization

Kalindhi Bhatia

The Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) first issued payments data localization-related sanctions in April 2021, restricting American Express and Diners Club from adding new customers for six months with...

OBLB categories

  • Financial Regulation
27 Sep 2021
2 min to read

Digital Platforms: A New Source of Financial System Interconnectedness

Elisabeth Noble

Financial institutions are increasingly relying on digital platforms as a means to market and distribute their products and services to customers, in line with the broader trend towards the...

OBLB categories

  • Financial Regulation
27 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Risk to the Global Financial System from US Court System

Benjamin P. Edwards

Global financial stability depends on steady capital markets. At present, US markets represent about 38% of global equity and fixed income markets. US markets themselves rely on quasi-governmental...

OBLB categories

  • Competition/ Antitrust
24 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Fair and Competitive E-marketplaces (F.A.C.E.) in India | The Business Users’ Narrative

Vedika Mittal Kumar | Manjushree RM

E-marketplaces are at the forefront of the digital revolution in India and are of undeniable importance to consumers and sellers/business users that operate upon it. Reinforced further by the COVID-...

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
23 Sep 2021
3 min to read

The Renaissance of EU Capital Markets

Lukas Plattner | Andrea Vismara

The main goal of the recently published Technical Expert Stakeholder Group (TESG) Report is to start to set free EU Capital Markets from the cage of regulations suffocating them. As noted by the TESG...

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
22 Sep 2021
3 min to read

Return of the Board Insiders: What is at Stake?

Shibashish Mukherjee | Jelle Bonestroo

With the deepening of the global financial markets and the expansion of multinational corporations worldwide, corporate governance through and by the board has remained a constant focus of regulatory...

OBLB categories

  • Financial Regulation
21 Sep 2021
4 min to read

A New Perspective on Market Actor Behavior, Motivations and Beliefs

Claire Hill

In my article Tribes and Temperaments: Two Underappreciated Determinants of Market Actor Behavior, Motivations and Beliefs, prepared for a volume on Hidden Fallacies in Corporate Law and Financial...

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Governance
21 Sep 2021
5 min to read

Related Party Transactions by Directors/Managers in Public Companies: A Data-Supported Analysis

Alperen Afşin Gözlügöl

Corporate scandals do not surprise the public anymore. But when they happen, they still involve some unexpected elements. This is also the case with the recent Carlos Ghosn and Nissan saga. Apart...

OBLB categories

  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
20 Sep 2021
3 min to read

Crisis Resilience of European Contract Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Functional and Comparative Approach

Valentin Jentsch

The sanctity of contracts, a guiding principle of contract law in civil law systems, requires that all contracting parties be expected to meet their contractual obligations, thereby ensuring efficacy...

OBLB categories

  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
17 Sep 2021
3 min to read

How do banks react to climate transition risks? Evidence from the introduction of cap-and-trade legislation

Ivan Ivanov | Mathias Kruttli | Sumudu Watugala

There is an ongoing debate among regulators and investors on the risks posed by climate change to the financial services industry and potential adverse effects on systemic stability. One source of...

OBLB categories

  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Financial Regulation
16 Sep 2021
4 min to read

AI or More? A Risk-based Approach to a Technology-based Society

Raimond Dufour | Josje Koehof | Tina van der Linden | Jan Smits

A lot has already been said about the EU draft regulation for Artificial Intelligence (the ‘Regulation’), published by the European Commission on 21 April 2021. What has however remained little...

OBLB categories

  • Corporate Governance
15 Sep 2021
3 min to read

The Toshiba Incident and its Implications

Hiroyuki Watanabe

A recent incident involving Japanese conglomerate Toshiba bears important lessons for corporate governance in Japan, in particular shareholder activism and the possibility to acquire shares in...

OBLB categories

  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
14 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Demand Guarantee or Suretyship Guarantee – Have corporate guarantors lost the benefit of the doubt?

Patrick Ostendorf

Whether a guarantee issued by a guarantor in order to secure contractual obligations of a main debtor constitutes a regular suretyship guarantee, triggering liability for the guarantor (in accordance...
Featured

OBLB categories

  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
  • Financial Regulation
13 Sep 2021
4 min to read

Corporate Climate: A Machine Learning Assessment of Climate Risk Disclosures

Julian Nyarko | Eric Talley

For more than a decade, regulators and policymakers alike struggled to articulate and implement disclosure expectations for public companies associated with climate risk. Although in 2010 the...
Featured

OBLB categories

  • Commercial Law
10 Sep 2021
3 min to read

Digital Dispute Resolution

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Gerhard Wagner

Technological developments such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not only disrupting the way we transact on markets and conclude contracts. They are also fundamentally changing the...

OBLB categories

  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
09 Sep 2021
4 min to read

AI for Banks – Key Ethical and Security Risks

Scott Atkins | Kai Luck

The use of AI to drive efficiency and business improvement has increased significantly in the last five years across multiple sectors. While a decade ago AI might have been thought of primarily in...

OBLB categories

  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
08 Sep 2021
4 min to read

The Legality of Capital Controls in a COVID-induced Retreat from Financial Globalisation

Bryan Mercurio | Ross P. Buckley | Erin Jiangyuan Fu

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest public health disaster the world has experienced in a century. Its economic fallout will exceed that of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The fallout has...

Pages

Supported by

Benefactor

With the support of

intesa sanpaolo logo