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09 Oct 2017

Financial Supervisors and RegTech: Four Roles and Four Challenges

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

The use of information technology (‘IT’) to constrain people’s financial behaviour is as old as writing systems: as Yuval Harari recounts, one of the uses of cuneiform tablets was to document...

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  • Corporate Finance
02 Oct 2017

Regulating a Revolution: From Regulatory Sandboxes to Smart Regulation

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Ross P. Buckley | Janos N. Barberis | Douglas W. Arner

The rise of financial technology companies (‘FinTechs’) and data-driven financial services providers (‘TechFins’) profoundly challenges the current regulatory paradigm. Financial regulators must...

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  • Financial Regulation
28 Sep 2017

Blockchain & Liability

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

Over the past several years, interest in distributed ledger technology (‘DLT’), such as Blockchain, has exploded. Regulators, consultants, technology firms and academia are promoting DLT for...

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  • Financial Regulation
17 Aug 2017

Cross-Border Crowdfunding – Towards a Single Crowdfunding Market for Europe

Dirk A. Zetzsche

Crowdfunding - an outcome of the modern sharing economy - has experienced rapid growth in some EU Member States, notably the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. However, home bias by...
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  • Financial Regulation
03 Jul 2017

The HR Challenge of FinTech for Financial Regulators

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

At least since securities regulation became the business of (federal) supervisory agencies, their professional staff has been predominantly composed of lawyers. Attracting the best ones has always...

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  • Financial Regulation
18 May 2017

From Fintech to Techfin: The Regulatory Challenges of Data-Driven Finance

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Ross P. Buckley | Douglas W. Arner | Janos N. Barberis

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Oct 2016

RegTech and the Future of Financial Regulation

Douglas W. Arner | Janos N. Barberis | Ross P. Buckley

The regulatory changes and technological developments following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis are fundamentally changing the nature of financial markets, services and institutions. At the juncture...

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