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18 Oct 2019
7 min to read

The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley

Jesse Fried | Jeffrey Gordon, Faculty of Law

The rise and fall of The We Company IPO bubble is one of those events that, like the subprime mortgage bubble that preceded the financial crisis, calls for an examination of market structures that...

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  • Financial Regulation
16 Oct 2019
2 min to read

Share Classes in Investment Funds and Fair Treatment of All Investors

Nicola de Luca

The market for open-end and closed-end ordinary or alternative funds—Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs)—has...

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16 Oct 2019
3 min to read

Consumer Law Myopia

Andrew Hayashi

The consumer credit market for low-income households in the United States is characterized by high interest rates, harsh default terms, and exotic fee schedules with low upfront fees and outsized...

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  • Financial Regulation
08 Oct 2019
3 min to read

Refining the Doctrine of Market Manipulation for the Modern Electronic Marketplace

Stanislav Dolgopolov

Rarely out of the headline news, market manipulation has always been a permanent fixture of securities markets. Even the earliest experiences of a modern-style stock exchange in the 17th century...

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  • Financial Regulation
04 Oct 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory Technology: Introducing Evidence-Based and Data-Driven Classifications of RegTech Firms

Emmanuel Schizas | Hatim Hussain

Regulation, however necessary, is a cost to industry. RegTech, which encompasses uses of technology to automate or improve compliance and supervision, has emerged as a potential catalyst in recent...

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02 Oct 2019
3 min to read

English Court of Appeal hands down eagerly awaited judgment clarifying right to damages for breaches of data protection laws

Laura Feldman

In the eagerly awaited decision of Llloyd v Google LLC, the Court of Appeal has provided helpful clarification on the circumstances when individuals can claim damages for breaches of their rights in...

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01 Oct 2019
3 min to read

Venture Bearding

Benjamin P. Edwards | Ann C. McGinley

For founders of companies, appealing to funders can be everything – and that often means projecting a masculine image. In a recent article, we coined the term ‘venture bearding’ to describe this...
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26 Sep 2019
2 min to read

2018 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Top 20 Most Read Posts

OBLB Editors

Thanks to the quality of its posts, the OBLB attracts wide readership. In 2018 alone, the OBLB website was visited over 300,000 times, that is more than 25,000 monthly. Our readers came to our...

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  • Financial Regulation
23 Sep 2019
4 min to read

FCA Final Guidance on Cryptoassets: jettisoning tech-neutrality?

Rory Copeland

On 30 July 2019 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its Final Guidance on its approach to cryptoassets. An ambiguity which the Final Guidance has caused concerns the FCA's previously...

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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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  • Financial Regulation
09 Sep 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory reporting: What should firms do to prepare for Brexit?

Mete Feridun

With Brexit fast approaching, firms which have passports under Schedule 3 to Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (‘inbound passporting EEA firms’) are making final preparations for the post-...

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28 Aug 2019
5 min to read

Individual Accountability in Financial Services—the UK and US Compared

Omar Salem | Jerome Roche

The UK has recently embarked on far-reaching reform to its approach to senior management accountability in financial services, in contrast to the US’s approach, which has seen more evolutionary...

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21 Aug 2019
2 min to read

The Treatment of Cryptotokens at English Law: Back to the Future

Simon Gleeson

The UK Jurisdiction Task Force (UKJT) is one of the six taskforces of the LawTech Delivery Panel, formed with the aim of ensuring that English law and the jurisdiction of England and Wales together...

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  • Financial Regulation
14 Aug 2019
4 min to read

Report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies: A missed opportunity for India

Shehnaz Ahmed

Recently, an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India released a report recommending a law to ban cryptocurrencies in India. The proposed law...

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12 Aug 2019
2 min to read

Responsible Finance Sukuk—Combining Financial Returns with Societal Value

Edana Richardson

With a range of green, social and sustainability investment opportunities now available within the conventional finance sector, responsible finance increasingly provides market participants with an...

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07 Aug 2019
2 min to read

Regulatory and Market Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings

Ricardo Correia

In the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, a series of alternative financing solutions have emerged, of which one of the most successful are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICOs are a way to...
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  • Financial Regulation
06 Aug 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory Technology: Eight Policy Recommendations

Eva Micheler | Johannes Jiang

Recent advances in computer science make it possible to develop technology to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements. This technology is referred to as ‘regulatory technology’ or ‘RegTech...

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05 Aug 2019
3 min to read

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets in Asia

Ross Buckley | Anton Didenko | Douglas W Arner | Cyn-Young Park | Bo Zhao

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain have attracted massive investment interest globally, which reflects their substantial transformative potential, especially in the financial sector...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Jul 2019
5 min to read

Let’s Agree on Common Identity Verification Rules for a Common Digital Banking Market

Jonas Sturies

Challenger banks do not only challenge traditional banks but also the rules aimed at them. The detail, how banks have to verify the identity of new customers in different jurisdictions, shows how...

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09 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The Case Against the Implementation of Loyalty Shares in Spain

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

The Spanish Ministry of Economy has recently released a new bill that, among other aspects, proposes an amendment of the Spanish Companies Act to allow listed companies to adopt loyalty shares. These...

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05 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The EU Cross-border Distribution of Funds: The Implications for Alternative Investment Funds

Tim Lewis | Jane Tuckley | Phil Bartram | Stephanie Briggs | Sam Kay | Aaron Stocks | Jeremy Elmore | Will Normand

A new package of measures amending the existing regimes governing the cross-border distribution of funds is due to become law shortly: a Directive (the CBD Directive) will amend the existing regimes...

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