According to Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (Leipzig, 1646 - Hannover, 1716), we live in the best of all possible worlds. The giant of French philosophes, Voltaire, had a different view: in his novel Candide (1758), the disillusioned protagonist ends up with a different, anti-idealistic view. The...

With transformative evolution involving crypto-assets, machine learning applications and data-driven finance models, complex regulatory and policy issues are emerging. Inadequate frameworks in FinTech markets create regulatory friction and regulatory fragmentation. These limitations continue to...

This paper analyzes the Judgement rendered on July 15 2021 by the European Court of Justice in Case 911/19 - Fédération Bancaire Française v. Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. The Judgment is of paramount importance: it has, indeed, the potential to affect apparently...

The regulatory sandbox is a real world alternative to regulatory lag. Its emergence as a novel regulatory development responds to challenges faced by FinTech innovators in navigating an unwieldy regulatory landscape not designed with FinTech in mind. Regulatory sandboxes are in operation in...

The paper discusses the most noteworthy measures taken or yet to be taken by the EU to combat the coronavirus crisis. Basically, the measures fall into four categories: (i) flexible application of EU rules that could hinder member states in their strenuous efforts to save their national...

Immediately after the outbreak of the current pandemic crisis, the EU developed a (rather) consistent strategy, by taking measures in order to deal with health emergency needs, support economic activity and employment, preserve monetary and financial stability and prepare the ground for...

The aim of the chapter is twofold. On the one hand, it explores the main features of theSustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. On the other hand, it tries to assesswhether the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is likely to succeed inharmonising sustainability-related (i) disclosure...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the similarities and differences between regulated markets (RMs), alternative trading venues (i.e. multilateral trading facilities / MTFs and organised trading facilities / OTFs), and systematic internalisers (SIs) in Europe. The structure of the paper is...

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it aims to provide a concise, but comprehensive overview of the Prospectus Regulation’s main provisions, highlighting the changes introduced to the previously applicable regime. Second, it carefully analyses the way in which the EU legislator...