Oxford Business Law Blog

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...

In 2017, Upstart, a US-based alternative lender using big data and machine learning to predict creditworthiness, received a No Action Letter from the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...

Resolution of distressed banks represents one of the major cornerstones of the post-crisis financial regulation. It should let shareholders and long-term unsecured (bail-inable) creditors bear the...

Corporate insolvency law can serve as a powerful mechanism to promote economic growth. Ex ante, a well-functioning insolvency framework can facilitate entrepreneurship, innovation and access to...

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...

Just over ten years after the last amendment to the German Patent Act, the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection submitted a discussion draft at the beginning of this year that...

On 18 March 2020, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a EUR750 billion bond purchase programme called Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) to address the economic and financial fallout...

The US JOBS Act and Regulation Crowdfunding were intended to create a new and inclusive type of online capital market where all entrepreneurs, regardless of their physical location, gender, or...

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...

There is little empirical work examining contractual innovation in the context of China, which is the second largest venture capital market in the world after the United States. Drawing upon...

Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are stimulating investment, business activity, and media attention, as well as passionate visions of industry disruption and societal transformation. As...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to significant limitations on trade and travel, severe economic stress and massive state interventions. This has been reflected in the financial markets and led to...

What makes a central bank ‘independent?’. As most central bank scholars and policy-makers would likely answer that question, ‘it depends’—it depends on the bank, the function it is performing, and...

As the world adapts to life in the shadow of Covid-19, the medium through which human beings communicate is undergoing a drastic change. Due to the social distancing measures adopted by governments,...

The global financial crisis highlighted the interconnectedness of international financial markets and the risk of contagion it posed. The crisis also emphasised the importance of supranational...

Writing about the past trajectories and future prospects of corporate law production amidst the COVID-19 crisis presents several challenges, above all with regard to motivation and justification. In...

The increasing pace of FinTech development has triggered a worldwide race among policy makers to overhaul their own regulatory landscape in order to be as innovation friendly as possible...