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Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes with a view to their policy, regulatory, supervisory and other legal implications. The Handbook aims to illustrate the crucial role the law has to play in tackling the revolutionary developments in the financial sector by offering a framework of legally enforceable principles and values in which such innovations might take place without threatening the acquis of financial markets law and more generally the rule of law and basic human rights.

With contributions from international leading experts, topics will include:

  • Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives
  • Fintech and Lending
  • Fintech and Payment Services
  • Fintech, Investment and In

    Table of Contents

    Part I Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives

    1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Financial Sector – Legal-Methodological Challenges of Steering towards a Regulatory ‘Whitebox’

    2. Smart Contracts and Civil Law Challenges: Does Legal Origins Theory Apply?

    3. Fintech and the Limits of Financial Regulation: A Systemic Perspective

    4. A Regulatory Roadmap for Financial Innovation

    5. FinTech and The Law & Economics of Disintermediation

    6. Financial Technologies and Systemic Risk – Some General Economic Observations

    Part II Fintech and Lending

    7. Fintech Credit Firms: Prospects and Uncertainties

    8. Fintech Credit and Consumer Financial Protection

    Part III Fintech and Payment Services

    9. EU Payment Services Regulation and International Developments

    10. Current and Future Liability Concepts in European Financial Market Regulation

    Part IV Fintech, Investment and Insurance Services

    11. Robo Advice: Legal and Regulatory Challenges

    12. Insurance and the Legal Challenges of Automated Decisions - an EU Perspective

    13. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and FinTech: Market Efficiency and Systemic Risk

    Part V Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Finance

    14. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    15. Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion

    16. Disintermediation in Fund-raising: Marketplace Investing Platforms and EU Financial Regulation

    Part VI Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets

    17. Cryptoassets in Private Law

    18. Cryptocurrencies: Development and Perspectives

    19. Distributed Ledger Technology and Sovereign Financing

    20. Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation?

    Part VII Markets and Trading

    21. High-Frequency Trading: Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in the Pursuit of Orderly Markets

    22. ‘Trustless’ Distributed Ledgers and Custodial Services

    Part VIII Regtech and Suptech

    23. "Computer Says No": Benefits and Challenges of RegTech

    24. Fintech, Regtech and Suptech: Institutional Challenges to the Supervisory Architecture of the Financial Markets

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    Publication Date: 1/9/2023 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780367726553, 978-0367726553
    ISBN10: 0367726556
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes with a view to their policy, regulatory, supervisory and other legal implications. The Handbook aims to illustrate the crucial role the law has to play in tackling the revolutionary developments in the financial sector by offering a framework of legally enforceable principles and values in which such innovations might take place without threatening the acquis of financial markets law and more generally the rule of law and basic human rights.

    With contributions from international leading experts, topics will include:

    • Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives
    • Fintech and Lending
    • Fintech and Payment Services
    • Fintech, Investment and In

      Table of Contents

      Part I Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives

      1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Financial Sector – Legal-Methodological Challenges of Steering towards a Regulatory ‘Whitebox’

      2. Smart Contracts and Civil Law Challenges: Does Legal Origins Theory Apply?

      3. Fintech and the Limits of Financial Regulation: A Systemic Perspective

      4. A Regulatory Roadmap for Financial Innovation

      5. FinTech and The Law & Economics of Disintermediation

      6. Financial Technologies and Systemic Risk – Some General Economic Observations

      Part II Fintech and Lending

      7. Fintech Credit Firms: Prospects and Uncertainties

      8. Fintech Credit and Consumer Financial Protection

      Part III Fintech and Payment Services

      9. EU Payment Services Regulation and International Developments

      10. Current and Future Liability Concepts in European Financial Market Regulation

      Part IV Fintech, Investment and Insurance Services

      11. Robo Advice: Legal and Regulatory Challenges

      12. Insurance and the Legal Challenges of Automated Decisions - an EU Perspective

      13. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and FinTech: Market Efficiency and Systemic Risk

      Part V Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Finance

      14. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

      15. Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion

      16. Disintermediation in Fund-raising: Marketplace Investing Platforms and EU Financial Regulation

      Part VI Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets

      17. Cryptoassets in Private Law

      18. Cryptocurrencies: Development and Perspectives

      19. Distributed Ledger Technology and Sovereign Financing

      20. Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation?

      Part VII Markets and Trading

      21. High-Frequency Trading: Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in the Pursuit of Orderly Markets

      22. ‘Trustless’ Distributed Ledgers and Custodial Services

      Part VIII Regtech and Suptech

      23. "Computer Says No": Benefits and Challenges of RegTech

      24. Fintech, Regtech and Suptech: Institutional Challenges to the Supervisory Architecture of the Financial Markets

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