Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law

Iris H-Y Chiu is a professor of Corporate Law and Financial Regulation at University College London (UCL) and Director of the UCL Centre of Ethics and Law, United Kingdom (UK). She is a research fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and most recently, a senior scholar at the European Central Bank’s Legal Research Programme.Gudula Deipenbrock is a professor of Business Law at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow 2020/2021 at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London, United Kingdom (UK).

• Part I Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives1. 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 Innovation5. FinTech and The Law & Economics of Disintermediation 6. Financial Technologies and Systemic Risk – Some General Economic ObservationsPart II Fintech and Lending7. Fintech Credit Firms: Prospects and Uncertainties 8. Fintech Credit and Consumer Financial ProtectionPart III Fintech and Payment Services9. EU Payment Services Regulation and International Developments10. Current and Future Liability Concepts in European Financial Market RegulationPart IV Fintech, Investment and Insurance Services11. Robo Advice: Legal and Regulatory Challenges12. Insurance and the Legal Challenges of Automated Decisions - an EU Perspective 13. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and FinTech: Market Efficiency and Systemic RiskPart V Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Finance14. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals15. Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion16. Disintermediation in Fund-raising: Marketplace Investing Platforms and EU Financial RegulationPart VI Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets17. Cryptoassets in Private Law18. Cryptocurrencies: Development and Perspectives19. Distributed Ledger Technology and Sovereign Financing 20. Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation?Part VII Markets and Trading21. High-Frequency Trading: Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in the Pursuit of Orderly Markets22. ‘Trustless’ Distributed Ledgers and Custodial ServicesPart VIII Regtech and Suptech23. "Computer Says No": Benefits and Challenges of RegTech24. Fintech, Regtech and Suptech: Institutional Challenges to the Supervisory Architecture of the Financial Markets

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