FinTech has developed rapidly in recent years, and with these developments new challenges arise, particularly for regulators: how do you apply current law to these ever-changing concepts in a world of continual technological advancement?
Key features include:
Insight from FinTech specialists from 10 countries, unpicking the legal and regulatory issues across banking, payments and fundraising
Detailed clarification on developments in alternative funding platforms, cryptoassets, initial coin offerings, blockchain and smart contracts
Discussion of innovative solutions for regulators including how to combat the challenges of patenting FinTech inventions and regulating robo-advisors
Guidance for law firms on meeting the challenges presented by the speed of technological innovation and new entrants in the financial sector.
Offering a thorough overview of the sector for practical use, FinTech: Law and Regulation will be an invaluable guide for in-house lawyers as well as law firms looking for an overview of legal and regulatory issues in FinTech. It will also be an essential text for those looking to understand the breadth of the sector, as well as the key legal and regulatory issues.
Preface
1. Introduction: What is FinTech?
Jelena Madir
PART I Payments, alternative financing and cryptoassets
2. Adapting to a changing payments system
Ben Regnard-Weinrabe and Jane Finlayson-Brown
3. Crowdfunding platforms
Peter Chapman
4. Cryptoassets and initial coin offerings
Claude Brown, Tim Dolan and Karen Butler
5. Cryptocurrencies and central banks
Hubert de Vauplane
PART II Blockchain and distributed ledgers
6. Blockchain in financial services
Colleen Baker and Kevin Werbach
7. Smart contracts
Jelena Madir
8. Governing the blockchain: How to determine applicable law?
Harriet Territt
9. Liabilities associated with distributed ledgers: a comparative analysis
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley, Douglas W. Arner and Anton Didenko
10. Cybersecurity and blockchain
Patricia L. de Miranda
11. Privacy and blockchain
Daniel Cooper and Gemma Nash
PART III Regulation and compliance
12. RegTech and SupTech
John Ho Hee Jung
13. FinTech and TechFin: regulation of data-driven finance
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley and Douglas W. Arner
14. Regulatory sandboxes
Byungkwon Lim and Charles Low
15. Compliance and whistleblowing: How technology will change, empower and replace whistleblowers
Kieran Pender, Sofya Cherkasova and Anna Yamaoka-Enkerlin
16. Regulation of robo-advisory services
Lee Reiners
17. Patentability of FinTech inventions
Mirjana Stankovic
Part IV Technological innovations in legal services
18. Innovation process in law firms
Sophia Adams-Bhatti and Tara Chittenden
19. Future lawyers: How to stay up to date with the legal tech revolution?
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal and Erik P.M. Vermeulen
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