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  • Financial Regulation
23 Oct 2020
4 min to read

Adapting India’s Regulatory Framework to Digital-only Banks: A Case for Reform

Shehnaz Ahmed | Krittika Chavaly

Fintech’s reach has been steadily expanding India, with a proliferation of intermediaries, particularly in the payments and lending spheres. While not wholly devoid of activity, the digital banking...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
23 Oct 2020
5 min to read

Corporate Governance Challenges in Initial Coin Offerings

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez | Nydia Remolina

In the past years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have become an important fundraising method for many individuals and firms. While most regulators, academics and policymakers around the world have...

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  • Financial Regulation
16 Oct 2020
12 min to read

Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Banks became major participants in US securities markets twice in the past century—during the 1920s and after the mid-1990s. Both times, banks with ‘universal banking’ powers originated risky loans...

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  • Financial Regulation
09 Oct 2020
6 min to read

The Wirecard Scandal: The High-speed Rise and Fall of a FinTech Company and Its Implications for Developed and Developing Economies

Stefan Zeranski | Ibrahim E. Sancak

Founded in Germany in 1999, Wirecard AG (‘AG’ is a public limited company formed in Germany) operated in the digital payment segment of the FinTech sector. The shares of Wirecard were listed in the...
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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
30 Sep 2020
2 min to read

The Government's Economic Response to the COVID Crisis

David Zaring

The COVID crisis has been an economic, as well as a public health, disaster, and the US government has responded to it by trying to loan money to as many institutions as it can, offering corporations...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
09 Sep 2020
9 min to read

Event Report: SMEs, Families and Capital Markets

European Corporate Governance Institute

The ECGI - SSE Riga Conference on ‘SMEs, Families and Capital Markets’ took place (online) on 19 June 2020, bringing together policymakers, academics and practitioners to explore some of the key...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
15 Jun 2020
3 min to read

Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability

Christos V. Gortsos

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...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
08 Jun 2020
3 min to read

ECGI/GCGC Global Webinar Series – The Differential Health, Economic and Financial Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Impact of the Crisis on Boards of Directors and Regulators

Jennifer Hill

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...

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05 Jun 2020
1 min to read

In Case You Don’t Want to Miss it: ‘Sustainability and Systemic Risk’ – LSE Conference

OBLB Editors

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...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
05 Jun 2020
5 min to read

Unlocking Secured Credit: International Ambitions and Domestic Realities

Giuliano G. Castellano | Andrea Tosato

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
02 Jun 2020
8 min to read

Why a Recent Judgment by the German Bundesverfassungsgericht Might Introduce Climate Change Considerations into Monetary Policy

Federica Agostini | Elia Cerrato | Nicolas Jaberg

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
14 May 2020
6 min to read

Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series – Designing a Regulatory Sandbox

Zlil Levin

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...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
30 Apr 2020
10 min to read

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Fed to the Rescue: Unprecedented Scope, Stretched Authority

Lev Menand

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...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
28 Apr 2020
4 min to read

Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings? Of Uncertainty in Times of a Pandemic

Pierre Schammo

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...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
17 Apr 2020
3 min to read

How Is the Market for Cryptocurrencies Affected by the Coronavirus and Why Should We Care?

Hadar Jabotinsky | Roee Sarel

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,...
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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
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  • Corporate Governance
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13 Apr 2020
1 min to read

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Business Law: A Series of Posts from the Oxford Business Law Blog

OBLB Editors

The COVID-19 Pandemic is the biggest challenge for the world since World War Two, warned UN Secretary General, António Guterres, on 1 April 2020. Millions of lives may be lost. The threat to our...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
26 Mar 2020
4 min to read

Financial Operating Systems

Dirk A. Zetzsche | William A. Birdthistle | Douglas W. Arner | Ross P. Buckley

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
23 Mar 2020
5 min to read

How to See It Coming: Predicting Bank Distress with Machine Learning

Joel Suss | Henry Treitel

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...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
27 Jan 2020
3 min to read

When is an Individual Investor Not in Need of Consumer Protection? A Comparative Analysis of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia

Wai Yee Wan | Andrew Godwin | Qinzhe Yao

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...
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  • Financial Regulation
18 Dec 2019
3 min to read

Extended Shareholder Liability for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Alessandro Romano | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Jonathan R. Macey

The default of a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) can trigger a cascade of defaults and ultimately impose enormous losses on the economy. Consequently, authorities generally bail...
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26 Sep 2019
2 min to read

2018 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Top 20 Most Read Posts

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Thanks to the quality of its posts, the OBLB attracts wide readership. In 2018 alone, the OBLB website was visited over 300,000 times, that is more than 25,000 monthly. Our readers came to our...

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