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  • COVID-19
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05 May 2020
7 min to read

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic

Dorothea Ringe | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law

The global startup sector looks back on a decade of rising VC investment and favourable economic conditions. Many new technologies and innovative products were recently launched by startups and have...
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  • Financial Regulation
27 Apr 2020
13 min to read

Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series: The Fourth OBLB Annual Conference Report

Eftim Ancev | Carlo Brunold, St Cross College | Param Pandya | Georgios Pantelias, Oxford Law Faculty

The potential of financial technology for innovation and growth is well-established by now. Yet startups often face many regulatory challenges in the early years, obstructing market access...
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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
03 Feb 2020
5 min to read

Blockchain Startups and Prospectus Regulation

Dmitri Boreiko | Guido Ferrarini | Paolo Giudici

Is the distinction between cryptocurrencies, coins, stablecoins, utility tokens, security-like tokens really so important in order to assess whether prospectus regulation should be applied to utility...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
30 Sep 2019
4 min to read

Startups and Company Law: The Competitive Pressure of Delaware on Italy (and Europe?)

Paolo Giudici | Peter Agstner

Our paper on startups shows that European company law is still anchored to last century ideas about growth and economic development. We hope that the Italian experience and our proposals can be of...

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  • Financial Regulation
18 Sep 2019
1 min to read

Call for Papers: Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players. Policy Challenges and Opportunities

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law

The potential of financial technology for innovation and growth is well-established by now. Yet startups often face many regulatory challenges in the early years, obstructing market access...
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  • Corporate Finance
26 Jul 2018

Is there a role for patents in the financing of new innovative firms?

Bronwyn H. Hall

At first glance the answer to the question posed in the title seems obvious, since such firms have few assets other than their ideas and inventions. Therefore, granting property rights to these...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
28 Jul 2017

The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups

Elizabeth Pollman

What explains the growing number of collisions and collaborations between law and entrepreneurs? How are startups responding? What are some of the implications of these developments? I explore these...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
18 Jan 2017

The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants

Lars Hornuf | Christian Haddad

In recent years, digitization and the Internet have turned traditional segments of the financial sector upside down. When it comes to financing a business project or a fancy wedding, fintech...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Oct 2016

The First Crowdfunding Investment Contracts in the US

Jack Wroldsen

The first crowdfunding investment offerings in the US include six types of investments: common stock, preferred stock, interest-bearing loans, revenue-sharing arrangements, convertible debt, and...

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