Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation

Edited by Joseph Lee, Reader in Corporate and Financial Law, University of Manchester, UK and Aline Darbellay, Assistant Professor of Corporate and Capital Markets Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• ContentsIntroduction to A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation 1Joseph Lee and Aline Darbellay1 The promise and perils of behaviourally informed bank disclosure regulation 5Aline Darbellay2 Empowering sustainable finance with artificial intelligence: a framework for responsible implementation 23Georgios Pavlidis3 From traditional to decentralized governance in the crypto environment: legal framework for decentralized autonomous organizations and decentralized finance 39Rolf H Weber4 The rise, fall and future of P2P lending platforms in China: the role of policy, law and enforcement 63Joseph Lee and Yonghui Bao5 The uncertain path towards open finance: mutual lessons from the United Kingdom and European Union regulatory approaches 83Clara Martins Pereira6 Developing cybersecurity in open banking and open finance: the application of blockchain technology and decentralised autonomous organisations 113Joseph Lee and Vere-Marie Khan7 Capital markets regulation in the age of social media: an analysis of the GameStop incident under the EU Market Abuse Regulation 139Philipp Maume8 Market abuse in the crypto-assets market: same risks, same activities, and same regulatory outcomes? 157Joseph Lee and Lukas Schu9 A European anti-money laundering supervisory authority: perspectives and challenges 179Katia Villard10 Traceability of crypto-asset transfers under the new EU AML/CFT regime: the crypto travel rule between challenges and open issues 197Nadia Pocher11 Regulation of payment systems from the perspectives of consumer protection and fraud prevention 221Christopher Chao-Hung Chen12 A research agenda for online dispute resolution for DLT finance 237Pietro OrtolaniIndex 251

‘A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation addresses the important legal issues arising from the impact of technology on financial law and regulation. The book addresses key challenges from the regulation of payment systems and crypto-assets to market abuse, open finance and the regulation of artificial intelligence and sustainability. The authors offer detailed perspectives from several major jurisdictions, providing an important global perspective to the complexities of digital finance and the relevant legal framework.’