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Is the innovation sandbox a regulatory multi-tool?

10 October 2022

Cristie Ford

Quinn Ashkenazy

Flying below the radar? Insider trading by executives below the top

To enforce insider trading laws, financial regulators require top executives to disclose their own-company trades. A consequence of this focus is that executives below the top fly under the radar....

15 July 2022

Hans K. Hvide

Kasper Meisner Nielsen

It’s Time to Regulate Stablecoins as Deposits and Require Their Providers to Be FDIC-Insured Banks

In November 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) issued a report analyzing the rapid expansion and growing risks of stablecoins. Stablecoins are digital assets that...

7 June 2022

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Insights from the Early Establishment of Banking Supervision in Italy (1926-1936)

Appropriate regulation is usually regarded as key to ensure financial stability. For the law not to remain ‘on paper’, proper rule enforcement is required through effective supervision. What are the...

17 March 2022

Marco Molteni

Dario Pellegrino

Call for papers - Conference on Financial Law and Regulation

The organisers, Dr Andreas Kokkinis (Birmingham) and Dr Federico Lupo-Pasini (Durham), would like to invite abstract submissions for papers to be presented on the 2nd day of the Conference on...

9 March 2022

Andreas Kokkinis

Federico Lupo-Pasini

Conflict of Interest in Investor-paid Credit Ratings

After the 2008 global financial crisis, most of the criticism about credit rating agencies (CRAs) has been revolving around the conflict of interest inherent to their issuer-paid business model: The...

8 March 2022

Nima Fazeli

RegTech: What it is and why it matters

Over the last two decades, financial institutions have been subject to an array of new regulatory requirements, requiring firms to measure financial risk more precisely, monitor misconduct by employees, vet...

Relying on AI for Financial Compliance and Supervision

Financial intermediaries and supervisory authorities increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI), a term coined by John McCarthy in 1956. In two recent working papers (‘Use of AI by...

16 February 2022

Gerard Hertig

Further Steps towards the Regulation of Cryptoassets in the UK

HM Treasury (HMT) recently published its ‘Cryptoasset promotions: Consultation response’ to its July 2020 consultation paper on cryptoasset promotions. The Financial Conduct Authority also published its own ...

16 February 2022

Andrew Henderson

Corporate Fraud and Regulation: The Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse

From the original Ponzi scheme of 1920 to the collapse of Enron in 2001, Lehman Brothers in 2008, and Wirecard in 2020, the history of the financial markets is marred...

Is the innovation sandbox a regulatory multi-tool?

Flying below the radar? Insider trading by executives below the top

It’s Time to Regulate Stablecoins as Deposits and Require Their Providers to Be FDIC-Insured Banks

Insights from the Early Establishment of Banking Supervision in Italy (1926-1936)

Call for papers - Conference on Financial Law and Regulation

Conflict of Interest in Investor-paid Credit Ratings

RegTech: What it is and why it matters

Relying on AI for Financial Compliance and Supervision

Further Steps towards the Regulation of Cryptoassets in the UK

Corporate Fraud and Regulation: The Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse

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