Definitions are always tough to sift through, and crypto is really just one instance of a much larger set of challenges faced across the fintech ecosystem to defining the parameters of policymaking. Indeed, there are few better examples of the … Continue Reading
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CFTC (Paid) Internship Opportunity Open
The CFTC is hiring second and third year law students for its paid 2020 Summer Intern Program! This position is being filled under the Pathways Intership Program that is designed to attract students with paid opportunities to work in agencies … Continue Reading
G2 conference to showcase Paul Hogan, Rodrigo Yañez
On March 17, 2020, Phil Hogan, the EU Commissioner for Trade, and Rodrigo Yañez, Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, Chile will be headlining the AIG Global Trade Series 2020 taking place at Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law on March 17. … Continue Reading
Top Fintech “Influencer”
So a popular ranking came out, collating data from over 5 million finch related posts, identifying the Top 100 “influencers” in fintech. While I would love even more to be able to “influence” my students as to their homework completion, … Continue Reading
Brexit and the Future of Fintech: 3 Theories
Bon voyage, EU, Hello world. Or something like that. Last Friday, Britain said good-bye to the EU, embarking on a new life as a fully independent country no longer tethered to the mast of regional integration. But there are plenty … Continue Reading
JIEL’s John H. Jackson Prize Awarded
Congratulations to the new winners of the 2018 John H. Jackson Prize for their article The IMF’s Jurisdiction Over The Capital Account—Reviewing the Role of Surveillance in Managing Cross-Border Capital Flows. The article has now appeared in the Journal of International … Continue Reading
Banks vs. Telcoms
You can learn lots of interesting things at conferences, and one of the most interesting observations I’ve come across in the last several weeks came from Jaco Grobler, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for FirstRand Group, the largest financial services institution by market … Continue Reading
Revamping the Sec Reg Curriculum
I took a bit of time during the break to revamp my syllabus for my Intro to Securities Regulation course. (Which for law profs is a big deal!) And I think it’s interesting to see just how much the field … Continue Reading
Great time thinking about DLT with IHS
Few topics are more interesting nowadays than how distributed ledger technologies are impacting market infrastructures, and few events tackle the topic in such an interesting way as was the case 2nd Annual Loans Conference. Many thanks for the opportunity to … Continue Reading
Georgetown now accepting Salzburg Fellow applications!
The Georgetown University Law Center is now accepting applications for the 2020 Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows Program. Four students will be selected to participate from the 2L, 3L and LLM classes. The deadline for applications is December 13, 2019. The Salzburg Cutler … Continue Reading