Oxford Business Law Blog

In its July 2020 Digital Trust Report, AustCyber estimated that a four week disruption to digital infrastructure caused by a major cyber attack would cost the Australian economy $30 billion (1.5% of...

In the modern digital world, where there is cybermoney, there are also cyberattackers. According to IBM, the finance and insurance sector has now been the single most attacked industry for four years...

Over the past decade a new era of FinTech (‘financial technology’) has emerged through the increasing convergence of the long-term process of digitization of finance, datafication, and new...

Artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on finance. In the span of a few decades, it has made finance faster, more accessible, more profitable, and more efficient in many ways. Despite all...

In recent years, the rise of financial technology (FinTech) has attracted much interest, in part, due to the rapid technological developments to the provision of financial services. New technological...

Autonomous Systems and the Law (C.H. Beck/Nomos 2019) by Nikita Aggarwal, Horst Eidenmüller, Luca Enriques, Jennifer Payne, and Kristin van Zwieten (eds) is a collection of papers dealing with the...

Whilst the word ‘disruptive’ may have negative connotations, the potential applications of disruptive technologies can lead to positive developments in emerging markets. This potential is constrained...

Reporters are in the habit of looking at emerging technologies in isolation when describing their benefits, and that’s certainly the case with biometrics, blockchains, smart contracts, artificial...

The security of communication networks and databases has become a main element of national security and economic competitiveness. Constant growth in information systems, financial technology and e-...

As financial markets become ever more driven by information technology and artificial intelligence, they also become more susceptible to new methods of market manipulation. With these new methods of...