From banking and finance to digital data protection, contracts, and taxation, modern financial and commercial practices are heavily impacted by continuing and relentless advances in digital technology. This volume presents a comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of all the major new subjects that have emerged from these developments, including specifically Financial Technology (FinTech), Regulatory Technology (RegTech), and wider advanced new technology (TechTech), all of which have come together within the exciting new fields of Digital Financial Law and Digital Commercial Law.
Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law deals with these developments in a complete, comprehensive, professional, informed, and insightful manner. The volume examines all essential FinTech subjects, such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, initial coin offerings (ICOs), stable coins, central bank digital currency (CBDC), decentralised finance (DeFi), decentralised exchanges (DEXs), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOS), as well as the Metaverse, MultiNet, and ValueNet. In its coverage, the volume spans across a wide variety of legal disciplines: digital contract and digital agency law, digital identity, signatures and cryptography, data protection law, artificial intelligence (AI) law, and digital intellectual property as well as tax law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions law, and financial crime and anti-money laundering. Additionally, the book features advanced comparative law analyses of International, European, UK, US, Japanese, Chinese, Hong Kong and Singapore FinTech Law as well as Islamic Law, making this volume an exhaustive treatment of Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law across all its impact areas.
Written by leading national and international professionals, officials, and academics from across the world,
Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law presents an essential mix of law, finance, and technology. It is a fundamental read for for legal practitioners and scholars advising on and researching digital financial and commercial law. At the same time it is accessible to policy makers and regulators as well as other professionals in interested in the development of technology in legal practice.
George Walker, Queen Mary's University London
George Walker is Professor of International Finance Law and Professor in Financial Technology (FinTech) Law at CCLS, Queen Mary University, London. He is a Barrister and Member of the Honourable Society of Inner Temple and a Member of the New York Bar and previously a Solicitor in Scotland and England & Wales. He has been a Legal Consultant with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC. He was a Major Leverhulme Fellow 2011-2013 and Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He was a Senior Sir John Houblon Montagu Norman Fellow and Visiting Academic at the Bank of England in 2016-2019. He was the Robert S Campbell Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford in 2021 and is now an Honorary Member.
