Oxford Business Law Blog

The GameStop saga has been mainly portrayed as the revenge of the retail day trader against the mighty hedge funds. While we all love the romanticised version of this story, the reality is more...

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and...

In 2002, the European legislature considered that a legal framework to facilitate financial collateral transactions such as repurchase agreements (repos), securities lending and derivatives would ‘...

Short selling is a controversial investment tool. There seems to be a deeply ingrained view that short sellers are mere speculators whose aim is to mercilessly bring down otherwise sound companies to...

The political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic present unprecedented and acute challenges for the EU Member States’ financial and economic systems. To cushion the economic consequences of the Covid...

Private meetings between management and investors occur worldwide and are generally held at corporate headquarters with invited investors and sell-side analysts (also known as site visits). Ng and...

'Never again' was the impassioned conviction of governments worldwide after being forced to bail out banking institutions and provide guarantees and capital to avert systemic collapse as a result of...

On 18 June 2020, the EU ‘Taxonomy Regulation’, (TR) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council, with the objective to develop a common language and a uniform definition of what counts as...

Financial regulation is commonly associated with a set of ex ante rules imposed by government on the financial sector in the public interest and accompanied by mechanisms of public supervision and...

Earlier this year, the Indian Supreme Court overturned the central bank's decision to ban cryptocurrency in the country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to be averse to accepting crypto-...

Institutional investors are increasingly facing pressure from their clients and others to focus more on ensuring that their investments promote corporate sustainability. Such expectations are...

ETFs, broadly defined as exchange-traded portfolios of assets, have proven to be among the most successful financial innovations of recent history. Since the introduction of the first ETF in the...

The growing thicket of regulatory rules in professional and private life is a well-known phenomenon in modern societies. Whereas specific rules and regulations may seem sensible, an excess of too...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, EU Member States granted vast amounts of state aid to financial institutions in order to preserve financial stability and avoid the...

In its Financial Stability Report for the year, the Reserve Bank of India cautioned that there ‘is no room for complacency on cyber security’. The central bank’s warning is timely. The Indian...

The EU’s Fintech Action Plan (more recently, the Digital Finance Strategy) and the Sustainable Finance Action Plan represent important pillars of the current European policy agenda. While the two...

September 2020 was the warmest month on record worldwide. For the first time in recorded history, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice has failed to freeze by late October. In recent years alone, we...

Issuing equity research reports raises interest and encourages trading in a particular stock. Brokers earn commissions on these trades, regardless of the ex-post accuracy of their research. If...

Private sector innovation—whether it is fintech, biotechnology, the platformisation of the economy, or other developments—seems, over and over, to be catching regulators by surprise. Financial...