Oxford Business Law Blog

Since the early 1970s, credit rating agencies have generally employed an “issuer pays” model under which they charge debt issuers for the cost of their services. As discussed in a recent paper, under...

Blockchains and the GDPR The imminent entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coincides with pronounced hype surrounding blockchains as a new method of data storage and...

The explosion in the collection of ‘big data’ and the use of algorithms for pricing across many industries has generated intense discussion in recent years. Broadly speaking, there are two main areas...

Where once knowledge was power, data now rules. With huge processing capabilities (literally) in the palm of the hand, the internet and ‘smart’ devices are changing ways of working and democratising...

Predictive capabilities created by big data and artificial intelligence increasingly allow parties to draft contracts that fill their own gaps and interpret their own standards without adjudication...

Financial technology (‘FinTech’) is transforming finance and challenging its regulation at an unprecedented rate. Two major trends stand out in the current period of FinTech development. The first is...

The traditional 2/20 fee structure of private investment funds has come increasingly under pressure in the last ten years. Typical factors considered to explain the pressure on fees in the industry...

Sophisticated computational techniques, known as machine-learning algorithms, increasingly underpin advances in business practices, from investment banking to product marketing and self-driving cars...

In a series of recent papers – ‘Dynamic Regulation for Innovation’, ‘Regulation Tomorrow: What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law?’, and ‘How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From...