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The European Commission has been looking at crowdfunding as an important alternative source of funding for SMEs (as part of its Capital Markets Union program and FinTech Action Plan) and has...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) cleared a proposal to establish a regulatory sandbox for registered entities, joining its sister financial regulators, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI...

The rise of fintech in the last decade is often described as a ‘revolution’ in finance. It is not hard to see why that is. New digital technologies and advances in data analytics are transforming the...

Three catalysts are currently causing a fundamental reorientation of domestic and international monetary and payment systems: Facebook’s Libra, China’s central bank digital currency (the Digital...

The increasing pace of FinTech development has triggered a worldwide race among policy makers to overhaul their own regulatory landscape in order to be as innovation friendly as possible...

‘Sorry, we are cashless’ was already a common phrase before the pandemic started and not limited to hipster baristas in New York City or London anymore. As the Covid-19 black swan continues shaking...

In the Fourth Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conference on ‘Financial Start-ups and Incumbents Players: Policy Challenges and Opportunities’, different ways to foster innovation were discussed...

Eric E Posner and E Glen Weyl recently stated in their book, Radical Markets, that ‘If we aspire to prosperity and progress, we must be willing to question old truths, to get at the root of the...

Small business assistance has been a central focus of the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and for good reason. Small businesses underlie the vitality of our neighborhoods, spark...

As technological innovation disrupts the financial sector, regulators across the world continue to explore and experiment with new approaches to regulating innovation. A regulatory sandbox is one of...

The impact of technology on finance (FinTech) is one of the hottest topics in business, law, and regulation, with academics and practitioners considering many issues, including cryptocurrencies, robo...

Faced with the challenges posed by the rise and evolution of disruptive technologies and innovations, countries have adopted differing regulatory approaches and adapted institutional structures and...

Since 25 May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been directly applicable in all EU member states. Our recently published book, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany deals with the...

In 2018, United States venture capital firms invested over $10.5 billion in FinTech firms across 1,042 deals. And of the 48 FinTech ‘unicorns’ valued at over $1 billion, the US is home to 28 of them...

Over the past decade a new era of FinTech (‘financial technology’) has emerged through the increasing convergence of the long-term process of digitization of finance, datafication, and new...

The ‘invisible hand’ has become an icon for an economic philosophy which assumes that a laissez-faire governmental policy will result in optimal social and financial outcomes as market forces will...

The Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore is holding a conference on the Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era on 9 - 10 March...