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Derivatives collateralization: One-way vs Two-way Margining

29 October 2024

Cristiano Borgogna

Hossein Nabilou

The Law and Macroeconomics of Custody and Asset Segregation Rules: Defining the Perimeters of Crypto-banking

Despite the original vision of ‘self-custody’ advocated by the creator(s) of the first cryptocurrency, custody rules have become a recurring theme in the cryptoasset markets due to practical needs for...

13 April 2022

Hossein Nabilou

Probabilistic Settlement Finality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains: Legal Considerations

The concept of settlement finality sits at the heart of any type of commercial transaction, whether the transaction is in physical or electronic form or is mediated by fiat currencies...

16 March 2022

Hossein Nabilou

Bitcoin Governance as a Decentralized Financial Market Infrastructure

A decade after the birth of Bitcoin, its governance has become increasingly contentious to the extent that even certain well-known proponents of the cryptocurrency declared that Bitcoin governance is broken,...

3 April 2020

Hossein Nabilou

Central Bank Digital Currencies: Preliminary Legal Observations

Cryptocurrencies and their potential impact on central banking have sparked a policy debate on addressing their potential risks to the banking and monetary systems. By highlighting the functional similarities between...

22 February 2019

Hossein Nabilou

Repo markets across the Atlantic: similar but unalike

The vulnerabilities in the wholesale funding and in particular short-term (overnight) repurchase agreement (repo) markets were significant sources of systemic risk in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The excessive dependence...

12 June 2018

Songjiwen Wu

Hossein Nabilou

Ignorance, Debt and Cryptocurrencies: The old and the new in the law and economics of concurrent currencies

Decentralized, permissionless and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology are said to have as transformative an impact on value as the invention of the internet had on information. For decades,...

19 March 2018

Hossein Nabilou

André Prüm

The Law and Economics of Shadow Banking

In our recent ECGI-Law working paper, ‘The Law and Economics of Shadow Banking’, we discuss the economic case for regulating shadow banking. Our paper asks three questions. First,...

16 March 2017

Hossein Nabilou

Alessio M. Pacces

Derivatives collateralization: One-way vs Two-way Margining

The Law and Macroeconomics of Custody and Asset Segregation Rules: Defining the Perimeters of Crypto-banking

Probabilistic Settlement Finality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains: Legal Considerations

Bitcoin Governance as a Decentralized Financial Market Infrastructure

Central Bank Digital Currencies: Preliminary Legal Observations

Repo markets across the Atlantic: similar but unalike

Ignorance, Debt and Cryptocurrencies: The old and the new in the law and economics of concurrent currencies

The Law and Economics of Shadow Banking

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