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The European Commission published its new Digital Finance Strategy on 24 September 2020 (DFS 2020). At the core of this strategy lie the legislative proposals for an EU regulatory framework on crypto...

The Review of the UK listing regime has previously been commented on by Professor Paul Davies in a very interesting OBLB post, summarising the recommendations of the Review and pointing out two of...

Private law norms used to govern the interactions between banks and clients, credit rating agencies and investors, or between financial firms. Nowadays, however, these relationships have also become...

Investors rely on information produced by intermediaries such as research analysts and auditors, or other legal sources such as company regulatory filings to obtain knowledge about offerings in...

Bank resolution is a cornerstone of the regulatory architecture that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Its core aim is to orderly resolve distressed banks allocating losses to...

Data breaches are increasingly common in our world. While computers and the Internet have created new opportunities to collect, store, and transmit information, they have also created new...

In recent weeks, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has devoted considerable attention to Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG, matters. It has requested public comment on climate...

To the surprise of many, the pandemic accelerated interest in ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) issues in 2020. As BlackRock pointed out in its last CEOs’ letter, ‘From January through...

In an article forthcoming in the European Journal of Law & Economics, I argue that, even if we accept the argument made by Manne, Epstein and others that firms wishing to allow their employees to...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on public health and social and economic systems should force a rethink of public policies directed at the achievement of the United...

Screen scraping—any automated process to extract content from a website for use in another context—has found countless applications over the past two decades. It is now used for targeted advertising...

In January 2021, the price of Bitcoin rose from about $32,000 to $38,000 within a few hours, which corresponded to a $111 billion increase in market capitalization. This increase followed the...

This post is based on a chapter in my forthcoming book, Regulating the Crypto-economy (Hart Publishing). A brief introduction to the book sets the context for the arguments made in the chapter...

As 2015 witnessed governments across the globe acknowledging the urgency to tackle the problem of climate change, finance came to be seen as crucial in realizing the vision in the United Nations...

The EU project is at an inflection point. Intra-EU alliances are altering in light of the UK’s departure, and the EU is grappling with a constellation of crises, including the continued fallout from...

On February 23, 2021, the United States Tax Court issued a split decision on the question of whether ‘cash back’ rewards issued by credit card companies are taxable gross income. In Konstantin...

My recent article ‘An Examination into the Investor Protection Properties of Robo-Advisory Services in Switzerland’ investigates the extent to which information provided by Swiss-based robo advisers...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, macroprudential housing-finance tools (MPTs) have been increasingly utilized to reduce financial system vulnerabilities related to housing market imbalances...

In October 2020 the Dutch financial daily newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad published an article (‘Euronext provides high frequency traders with an invisible advantage’) in which it revealed that...

As of today, 67.8% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. This means that Delaware, despite having less than one-third of one percent of the US population, is by far the primary place...