Oxford Business Law Blog

The recent e-book on Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability, which was published by the European Banking Institute (EBI) and which I co-edited with Georg Ringe (Hamburg University) contains as...

In April 2020, Monash University hosted the first session of the ECGI/GCGC 24 hour global webinar on The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges...

The LSE Systemic Risk Centre will be hosting an online public event via Zoom. The conference is organised by Eva Micheler (LSE Law, SRC), Jon Danielsson (LSE Finance, SRC) and JP Zigrand (LSE Finance...

Personal property security law is a crucial element in the complex mosaic of access to credit and financial inclusion. The prevailing view among scholars, policymakers and legislators is that a legal...

The recent judgement by the German Federal Constitutional Court (‘FCC’) has been widely criticised both for its legal reasoning and for its impact on the EU legal order. Nevertheless, it yields...

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...

When it comes to responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most active institutions at the national level. Its bold and timely interventions...

My aim in this blog post is to reflect on an underlying aspect of the pandemic: that is, uncertainty affecting policy makers and regulators. I am of course not the first who attempts to draw...

The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the toughest challenges the world has ever faced. What started as a local crisis in China has since spread worldwide—drastically changing life everywhere. Schools,...

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...

The great American baseball sage, Yogi Berra, is thought to have once remarked: ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future’. That is certainly true, but thankfully the accelerating...

The present regulatory orthodoxy in protecting individual investors from ‘bad’ investments is to create and enforce a robust disclosure regime. Many jurisdictions therefore require issuers of...

This conference explores the use of technology in financial markets from the perspectives of finance, law and regulation. The event covers payment systems, cryptocurrencies and property law, digital...

Data standardization—the process of developing and implementing rules for how data are described and recorded—offers significant benefits for financial firms and regulators. Nonetheless, the topic...

In early 2009, with the financial crisis still raging, progressive policymakers successfully passed legislation upending the credit card industry. This legislation precluded card issuers from...

A considerable proportion of publicly traded corporate bonds comprises bonds of privately held firms (ie, firms whose equity is non-listed and does not trade over the counter). In our paper 'Is it...

Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the communications channel by which an increasing number of commercial and financial transactions take place. But already in the 1990s, it was clear that the...

In this post, we provide an overview of the main findings of the latest Report from the Italian financial regulator, CONSOB, on Italian households’ financial choices. The 2018 edition of CONSOB’s...