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.

Contents:

1:Financial Technology and Financial Technolgy Law

PART II: FINTECH SECTORS
2:Banking and FinTech (BankTech), Emily Bradley, David Shone, and Ben Kingley
3:Lending and FinTech (LoanTech), Charles Proctor and Ottilia Csoti
4:Payment and FinTech (PayTech) ), Nikki Johnstone
5:Securities and FinTech (SecTech), Jonathan Gilmour and Natalie Lewis
6:Insurance and FinTech (InsurTech), George Walker

PART III: FINTECH LAW
7:Cryptocurrencies (CoinTech), David Quest
8:Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Rory Copeland and Ben Regnard-Weinrabe
9:Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), Arun Srivastava
10:Smart Contract Law, Matthew Lavy and Laura Wright
11:Regulatory Sandboxes and Innovation Hubs, Douglas Arner, Ross P. Buckley, Robin Veidt, and Dirk Zetzsche
12:RegTech, SupTech, and Digital Infrastructure, Douglas Arner and Ross P Buckley
13:Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs), Marco Bodellini, Kai Zhang, and Jin Enyi
14:Artificial Intelligence & FinTech Law, Jacob Turner and Ian Bergson
15:Economic Crime, Money Laundering and FinTech, Andrew Campbell and Steven Montagu-Cairns

PART IV: DIGITAL COMMERCIAL LAW
16:Digital Identity, Signatures, and Cryptography, Lorna Brazell
17:Data Protection Law and FinTech, Michael Phillis and David McIlroy
18:Digital Contract and Sale of Goods Law, David McIlroy
19:Digital Agency Law and FinTech, Deborah Sabbalot
20:Intellectual Property Law and FinTech, John Salmon
21:Taxation and FinTech Law, Bernard Schneider
22:Competition Law and FinTech, Miles Trower
23:Mergers and Acquisitions Law and FinTech, Simon Toms and Patrick Tsitsaros

PART V: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
24:Computing, Internet, Telecoms, and the Cloud, Chris Hill
25:Cybersecurity Law, Gavin Sutter

PART VI: FINTECH INTERNATIONAL
26:International FinTech and Cryptoasset Regulation, Ross Leckow
27:EU Law and FinTech, Kern Alexander
28:US Law and FinTech, Richard B. Levin, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran
29:Japanese Law and FinTech, Tetuso Morishita
30:Chinese Law & FinTech, Yang Dong
31:Hong Kong and Singapore Law and FinTech, Evan C Gibson, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez and Nydia Remolina
32:Islamic Law, Cryptoassets, and FinTech, Abdul Karim Aldohni

LinkedIn Profiles of the Editors:

Ekkenhart Reimer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekkenhart-reimer
Alexander Rust: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-rust

Links to International Organizations/Institutions:

INATBA (International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications): https://inatba.org/
FSB (Financial Stability Board): https://www.fsb.org/
IMF (International Monetary Fund): https://www.imf.org/
World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development): https://www.oecd.org/

Keywords:
FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Cryptocurrencies

Target Audience:
Legal Practitioners, Academics, Policy Makers, Financial Regulators, Technology Professionals

Genres:
Legal, Finance, Technology, Regulatory, Academic

Tags:
FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, Digital Law, DeFi, Digital Commercial Law, Financial Technology, Tech Law