In both developed and developing economies, financial technology has become an increasingly important part of the economic landscape. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is demographically young and economically diverse. With 400 million inhabitants, it is also a region that has vast...

Most people generally link blockchain technology with the cryptocurrency phenomenon of the last decade. The application of this innovative new technology, however, is actually much broader. One of the most promising areas where blockchain has the potential to be revolutionary is trade finance....

This paper examines how the digital financial infrastructure that emerged in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis is being tested and leveraged to meet some of the financial, economic and health challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The origins of the 2008 crisis and the current...

‘Open Banking’ is a digital finance innovation built upon customer data sharing between incumbent financial institutions and third party financial service providers. Open Banking is reshaping the banking sector through extending the reach and convenience of traditional banking services by...

Despite an emerging international consensus on principles of AI governance, lawmakers have so far failed to translate those principles into regulations in the financial sector. Perhaps, in order to remain competitive in the global race for AI supremacy without being typecast as stifling...

In a 2008 discussion paper, Infrastructure Australia, a statutory advisory council consisting of 12 members, noted that ‘national infrastructure ...is the platform for future growth and prosperity'. In recent years, however, a number of PPPs engaged in building this national infrastructure...

Professor J W Carter recently wrote: ‘Lord Reid's legitimate interest qualification has always been a puzzle' ((2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 490, 491). The qualification Professor Carter is referring to allows a non-repudiating party to a contract to continue performance of the contract if...