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The Emergence of Financial Data Governance

Finance is one of the most digitalized sectors of the economy. The processes of digitization – transforming analogical information into digital form – and datafication – converting any aspect of...

29 March 2022

Douglas W Arner

Giuliano G. Castellano

Ēriks K. Selga

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

Governing the Digital Finance Value Chain in the EU: MIFID II, the Digital Package, and the Large Gaps between

The emergence of the complete digitization of the financial services value chain has gathered pace with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is mainly premised on automation of the...

22 February 2022

Emilios Avgouleas

Alexandros Seretakis

Implementing Blockchain Technology for Corporate Record-keeping in Ecuador

Following the recommendations suggested by the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Ecuador implemented the most ambitious corporate law reforms observed in Latin America in the past decades....

13 January 2022

Paúl Noboa-Velasco

How Decentralised are ‘Decentralised Autonomous Organisations’ (DAOs)?

Blockchain applications to decentralise finance (DeFi) are quickly developing and are gaining more and more traction in practice as well as in policy and academic debates. One of...

5 November 2021

Edoardo D. Martino

Simone Spijkerman

Digital Dispute Resolution

Technological developments such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not only disrupting the way we transact on markets and conclude contracts. They are also fundamentally changing the processes and...

10 September 2021

Horst Eidenmüller

Gerhard Wagner

National Blockchain Laws as a Threat to Capital Markets Integration

Since its inception, the blockchain has been surrounded by an anti-legalistic whiff. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, hailed its ‘unstructured simplicity’. Even to this day, apostles...

14 July 2021

Matthias Lehmann

The Future of Finance is Decentralized—Or Not?

When one thinks about financial systems, what comes to mind? Perhaps financial institutions like banks, central banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and hedge funds? Perhaps financial markets, issuers and investors,...

17 June 2021

Axel Wieandt

The DLT Sandbox Under the EU Pilot Regulation

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...

14 May 2021

Dirk A Zetzsche

Jannik Woxholth

Delaware’s Dominance, Wyoming’s Dare—Blockchain Companies and the Market for Corporate Charters

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,...

25 March 2021

Pierluigi Matera

The Emergence of Financial Data Governance

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

Governing the Digital Finance Value Chain in the EU: MIFID II, the Digital Package, and the Large Gaps between

Implementing Blockchain Technology for Corporate Record-keeping in Ecuador

How Decentralised are ‘Decentralised Autonomous Organisations’ (DAOs)?

Digital Dispute Resolution

National Blockchain Laws as a Threat to Capital Markets Integration

The Future of Finance is Decentralized—Or Not?

The DLT Sandbox Under the EU Pilot Regulation

Delaware’s Dominance, Wyoming’s Dare—Blockchain Companies and the Market for Corporate Charters

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