This Article shows that fintech exacerbates the difficulties of standard setting in international financial regulation. Earlier work introduced the “Innovation Trilemma” (the Trilemma). When seeking to balance the goals of achieving market integrity and innovation through clear and simple...

Trading the preeminent risk-free security, the $21 trillion U.S. Treasury market supports the country’s borrowing needs, financial stability, and investor appetite for a safe asset. Straddling the nexus between a securities market and a systemically essential institution, the Treasury market...

An increasingly common response by regulators to what they view as undesirable market trends or challenges has been a sharp turn towards litigation to introduce novel legal theories and frameworks that could have been the product or subject of legislative or administrative rulemaking. The...