This paper outlines a wide range of new protections extended to franchisees in Manitoba under The Franchises Act (2010). The act explicitly extends five key protections to individuals entering into franchise agreements with a franchisor, including the duty of fair dealing, the right to...

As inflation in 2022 surges to a forty-year high, economists, lawmakers, and the public continue to question why. As part of that inquiry, experts and onlookers seek explanations grounded in errors recently made by the central bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve. This Article argues that, while there...

In 2009, President Barak Obama allocated $8 billion in stimulus funding for high speed rail projects across the United States. One year later, in 2010, an additional $2.5 billion was distributed to corridors with High Speed Rail Projects. Even though the most recent congressional budget...

This Article highlights the role of capture in providing a normative foundation for regulatory review of administrative action, which at the federal level is conducted by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It also...

In this document, we respond to the UK's HM Treasury’s Future Financial Services Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets Consultation Call. In particular, we focus on the provisions relating to cryptoasset trading venues and cryptoasset custodians. We welcome the HMT’s view that cryptoasset...

Since the EU passed the PSD II, countries across the world have or are contemplating a new framework to govern data sharing among different players in financial markets—a trend called ‘Open Banking’ that requires or encourages banks to share consumer-permissioned banking data with third...

Brexit is likely to lead to the relocation of UK financial services firms to the EU in order to be able to access EU markets, mainly through the EU passport. The same applies to the EU firms intending to be active on the UK markets. The access conditions to the EU markets are numerous and...

UK banks who want to maintain an access to the EU market after BREXIT are currently assessing their options. The prospect of a free trade agreement with the EU remaining uncertain, they cannot rely on such an agreement before taken a decision. The present paper sketches the three main options...