spring 2019 materials
1.0 Introduction
International Finance Materials Chapter 1: Introduction
2.0 Litigation Issues in International Financial Transactions
Law Debenture Trust v Ukraine [2018] EWCA Civ 2026 (Court of Appeal, September 2018).
3.0 Issues in Transnational Financial Regulation
4.0 Compliance and International Finance: Sanctions, Money Laundering, Libor
Tom Keatinge, Emil Dall, Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi and Sarah Lain, Transatlantic (Mis)alignment: Challenges to US-EU Sanctions Design and Implementation, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Occasional Paper (Jul. 2017)
International Finance Materials Chapter 4: Sanctions.
International Finance Materials Chapter 5: Compliance and Financial Regulation
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Remuneration Practices at Large Financial Institutions (Apr. 2018)
5.0 Fintech
Australian Government, The Treasury, Initial Coin Offerings Issues Paper (Jan. 2019)
OECD, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) for SME Financing (Jan. 2019)
Financial Action Task Force, Public Statement – Mitigating Risks from Virtual Assets (Feb 2019)
ESMA, EBA, EIOPA, FinTech: Regulatory Sandboxes and Innovation Hubs (Jan. 2019)
IMF, The Bali Fintech Agenda (Oct. 2018)
6.0 Climate Change: Financial Stability and Climate Finance.
Sustainable finance
EU Commission Communication, Action Plan: Financing Sustainable Growth, COM(2018) 97 final (Mar. 8, 2018)
Climate change and securities disclosure
William Hinman, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC, Applying a Principles-Based Approach to Disclosing Complex, Uncertain and Evolving Risks, Remarks at the 18th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe, London, England (Mar. 15, 2019)
Petition to the SEC for a Rulemaking on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure by Professor Cynthia Williams, Osgoode Hall Law School (Oct. 1, 2018)
Petition to the SEC for Rulemaking on Biomass and Climate Disclosures (Feb. 27, 2019)
Ramirez v Exxon Mobil Corporation (ND Tex. 2018)
Climate finance
Loan Market Association, Loan Syndications and Trading Association & Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (Mar. 2019) (Press Release)
Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019
Climate change and financial stability
Caroline Bradley, Climate Change and Brexit as Financial Stability Risks (2017).
Brexit
European Council decision taken in agreement with the United Kingdom, extending the period under Article 50 TEU (Apr. 10, 2019)
European Council (Art. 50) conclusions (Apr. 10, 2019)
EU Commission Communication, Addressing the impact of a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement: the Union’s coordinated approach, COM (2019) 195 final (Apr. 10, 2019)
Joint Committee of European Supervisory Authorities, Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System (Spring 2019)
François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, How to develop a “financial Eurosystem” post-Brexit (remarks at the Eurofi High Level Seminar 2019, Bucharest, 5 April 2019)
Bradley, Forking Law (2019 draft)
ESMA Statement, Impact of Brexit on the trading obligation for shares (Article 23 of MiFIR) (Mar. 19, 2019)