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(Un)intended Consequences of Macroprudential Regulation

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. Macroprudential tools are financial policies...

29 March 2021

Moran Ofir

Yevgeny Mugerman

‘Relief and Rescue’ Policies in Financial Regulation at the Time of the Pandemic

In our recent article, entitled ‘Relief and Rescue During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Financial Regulatory Suspensions in the UK’ (Stanford International Policy Review) and its shorter version, entitled ‘...

Theorizing Bank Supervision through Its History

In the United States, supervision is as old as banking, or nearly as old. State governments developed oversight regimes in the 1830s, and the federal government has played a permanent...

11 March 2021

Sean Vanatta

Multifaceted Collateral in the Prism of Laws

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 ‘contribute to the integration and...

11 February 2021

Matthias Haentjens

Ross Spence

Is Reddit the New Bloomberg Chat? GameStop, Short Sellers and Social Media

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...

3 February 2021

Paul Oudin

Javier Paz Valbuena

Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law

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...

20 January 2021

Olha O. Cherednychenko

Cybersecurity Breaches and the Financial Sector: Revitalising the Proposal for a CERT-Fin in India

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....

10 December 2020

Sohini Banerjee

KS Roshan Menon

Climate Change: The Impacts on Financial Intermediaries and their Role in the Low-Carbon Transition

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...

8 December 2020

Michelangelo Bruno

Juste Galvydyte

Adapting India’s Regulatory Framework to Digital-only Banks: A Case for Reform

Fintech’s reach has been steadily expanding India, with a proliferation of intermediaries, particularly in the payments and lending spheres. While not wholly devoid of activity, the digital banking space is...

23 October 2020

Shehnaz Ahmed

Krittika Chavaly

Corporate Governance Challenges in Initial Coin Offerings

In the past years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have become an important fundraising method for many individuals and firms. While most regulators, academics and policymakers around the world have focused...

23 October 2020

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

Nydia Remolina

(Un)intended Consequences of Macroprudential Regulation

‘Relief and Rescue’ Policies in Financial Regulation at the Time of the Pandemic

Theorizing Bank Supervision through Its History

Multifaceted Collateral in the Prism of Laws

Is Reddit the New Bloomberg Chat? GameStop, Short Sellers and Social Media

Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law

Cybersecurity Breaches and the Financial Sector: Revitalising the Proposal for a CERT-Fin in India

Climate Change: The Impacts on Financial Intermediaries and their Role in the Low-Carbon Transition

Adapting India’s Regulatory Framework to Digital-only Banks: A Case for Reform

Corporate Governance Challenges in Initial Coin Offerings

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