In this AIIFL
News, we highlight a range of publications and activities from the AIIFL team
as well as introducing the new AIIFL website.
Over the past year, the
role of digital communications and interactions has increased dramatically,
including here at AIIFL. We have thus taken the opportunity to refocus our
efforts and digital reach, not only with this new website but with an
increasing range of online events and expansion of our communications channels,
including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Taking adventure of
this, I would like to share with you a photo for our first online meeting with
the AIIFL Academic
Advisory Board (AAB) and Professional
Advisory Board (PAB) on 28th June 2021 attended by (from top left to
right): Professor George Walker (AAB), Professor Douglas Arner (AIIFL
Director), Yong Kai Wong (PAB), Kenneth Ng (PAB), Jeffrey Chen (PAB), Stefan
Gannon (Vice Chairman, PAB), Evan Gibson (AIIFL Research), Professor Charles
Booth (Vice Chairman, AAB), Professor Mark Roe (AAB), Professor Mads Andenas
(AAB), Hon Mr Justice William Blair (AAB), Professor Ruth Plato-Shinar (AAB),
Professor Steven Schwarcz (AAB), Professor Ian Ramsay (AAB), Dr Michael Taylor
(AAB), Dr Arthur McInnis (AAB), Martin Lister (PAB), Sou Chiam (PAB), Professor
Benjamin Geva (AAB), Professor Rolf H. Weber (AAB), Professor Sarah Worthington
(AAB), Flora Leung (AIIFL Secretary), Susie Cheung (PAB), Mohan Datwani (PAB),
and Yun Zhao (Board of Management). Professor Richard Cullen
(Board of Management), Professor John Lowry (AAB) and Professor Dan Prentice
(AAB) are not visible but present.
The 2019-2020
academic year was the twentieth anniversary of AIIFL. While we were
unable to hold live events in Hong Kong, we did take the opportunity to take
stock of our performance over the past 20 years, summarised in the 2019-2020
AIIFL Annual Report for AIIFL’s 20th Anniversary. During
that period AIIFL and its Fellows have had impressive output, impact and reach.
My current term as Director of AIIFL will finish at the end of June and I would especially like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continuing support to the Institute and welcome Dr Emily Lee as AIIFL Director from 1 July 2021. I would very much like to thank the entire AIIFL team, particularly Flora Leung (without whom nothing here happens) and Evan Gibson (AIIFL Assistant Research Officer), picture left.
I may be
reached anytime via email (douglas.arner@hku.hk)
or via LinkedIn.
(2003-2011, 2019-2021)
HIGHLIGHTS
New AIIFL Website
The new AIIFL website (www.AIIFL.com) highlights the key
themes and issues driving global finance today: regulation, technology,
sustainability, globalisation, fragmentation.
There are a range of
short videos across the site, with the co-founders of AIIFL as well as the
Convenors of the Research Programmes, sharing the history of the Institute as
well as our strategic research directions. We hope that the new website
is useful and informative.
UN Dialogue on Global Digital Finance Governance
The first set of reports from the UN Dialogue on Global Digital Finance Governance has been launched. A team from AIIFL including Sangita Gazi, Kuzi Charamba, Artem Sergeev and Douglas Arner along with Dirk Zetzsche (University of Luxembourg) and Ross Buckley (UNSW Australia) has worked closely with the Dialogue over the past year, including leading on 3 of the 8 of the reports:
Summary
Paper: BigFintechs and Sustainability: A
Necessary Convergence
Technical
Paper 1.1: BigFintechs and their impacts on
sustainable development
Technical
Paper 1.1B: BigFintechs and their impacts on
macroeconomic policies
Technical
Paper 1.2: Digital currencies and CBDC impacts
on Least Developed Countries
Technical
Paper 2.1: BigFintechs and the UN SDGs: the role of corporate governance
innovations
Technical
Paper 3.1: Policymakers, BigFintechs and the
United Nations SDGs
Technical
Paper 3.2: BigFintechs and international
governance, policymaking and the UN SDGs: the SDGs in the international
governance of finance
Technical Paper 3.3: A principles-based approach to the governance of BigFintech
All
papers are available HERE.
Looking Back Looking Forward: Regulatory Technology After COVID-19
In the episode 4 of Looking Back Looking Forward, Douglas Arner discusses the implications of COVID-19 for RegTech and SupTech: the use of technology for regulatory and supervisory purposes. Non-face-to-face interactions due to lockdowns and other COVID-19 measures have allowed the pursuance of digital reporting and analytics to not only create efficiency but also achieve regulatory and supervisory objectives for financial systems to support sustainable development more broadly.
Watch it HERE
All the episodes of Looking Back Looking forward are available at FinTech Videos Library of the HKU FinTech website.
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Hong Kong's
Housing Crisis - An Underlying Factor in the 2019 Riots
AWARDS AND IMPACTS
Syren Johnstone appointed as one of the Curators who act as the Managing
Editors of the RegTrax repository. The Curators are recognized experts in their
jurisdictions, and oversee the information that’s being added to ensure
accuracy. They are charged with reviewing the research done by its network of
contributors (as well as any regulations offered from the public), and ensuring
the accuracy of the regulation, source, and conclusions.
LITE Lab students nominated for Financial Times
Innovative Lawyer Collaborative Lawyer Award on Wanted: Role Models for Solving
Legal Problems Together
SELECTED MEDIA
FRT Episode 98: The Platformization of Finance
Interview on
the Future of Legal
Innovation in Asia
Press Release on
Covid-19 Catalysing
the Rapid
Growth of Asia Pacific
Regtech Sector
Central
Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
Douglas Arnershared his views on
Libra’s challenges to world
currencies
Rethinking Economics NL for Interview-Series on
Economy of 21st Century
Upcoming Events
13 July 2021
30 June 2021
Giuliano G. Castellano presented Secured Lending: Coordinating Law Reforms and Regulatory Policies at the European Central Bank (ECB) on 23 June 2021. The discussion was based on his research recently published on “Commercial Law Intersections” as well as on his contribution to the activities of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group.
Douglas Arner presented at the Symposium on Technology and New Finance in the Digital Era on 25 May 2021 Watch it HERE
Douglas Arner presented at Regulation of AI in the
financial sector: crossed perspectives in Asia and Europe on 17 May 2021
Papers and Video are available HERE
Syren Johnstone on Asia Segment on Cryptoassets at the Stanford Law School in April 2021 Watch it HERE
Member of the AIIFL Professional Advisory Board and Partner of Dentons Hong Kong, Jeffrey H. Chen, presented a webinar "Anatomy of Structured Products" on 14 October 2020 Watch it HERE
Brian Tang on behalf of the LITE (Law, Innovation,
Technology and Entrepreneurship) Lab presented at the 2021 Global Law Lab
Showcase & Meetup on 12 May 2021
Brian Tang on LegalTech Innovation
Conference with fellow authors of The LEGALTECH
Book on “Global Business of LegalTech: Founder’s Perspectives” on 13
May 2021 Watch it HERE
Brian Tang served as Judge and Speaker on Hong Kong Startups Meet
MNCs – LegalTech organised by American Chamber
of Commerce in Hong Kong on 6 May 2021
JOIN US
We are seeking
to expand our world leading team in the area of FinTech, RegTech and Digital
Finance.
Post-Doctoral
Fellow in Finance, Technology and Regulation
Applications
close: 31 July 2021, HK Time
More details
and online application are available HERE
Research
Assistant Professor in FinTech / RegTech
Applications
close: 30 June 2021, HK Time
More details
and online application are available HERE
The HKU-Standard Chartered Foundation FinTech Academy, with the aim to cultivate interdisciplinary research in FinTech, has established a Research Assistant Professor Scheme.
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