This fully revised and updated third edition provides a practical examination of legal and regulatory issues in FinTech, a sector whose rapid rise in recent years has produced opportunities for innovation but has also raised new challenges. Featuring insights from over 40 experts from 10 countries, this book analyses the statutory aspects of technology-enabled developments in banking and considers the impact these changes will have on the legal profession.

Key Features:

• Three new chapters covering AI in the Financial Sector, Bank-FinTech Partnerships and Embedded Payments, and a Comparison of the Regulation of Cryptoasset Activities in Europe and the United States
• Examination of potential blockchain and artificial intelligence applications in the financial services industry
• Exploration of guidelines on data protection, payments, cybersecurity, central bank digital currencies, anti-money laundering, tokenisation and blockchain
• Analysis of the main regulatory and compliance issues surrounding FinTech developments, from patenting challenges to innovative solutions, including regulatory sandboxes
• Dissection of the EU''s Regulation on Markets in Crypto-assets and DLT Pilot Regime, the US''s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, the UK''s Financial Services and Markets Act

Considering the benefits and risks of new types of financial technologies, this book will prove an invaluable guide for in-house and private lawyers interested in a comprehensive legal overview of the FinTech sector. It will also appeal to students and scholars of financial law, banking, and economics.

Contents:

1. Introduction – what is fintech? 1
Jelena Madir

PART I. PAYMENTS, ALTERNATIVE FINANCING AND CRYPTOASSETS
2. Adapting to a changing payments landscape 24
Ben Regnard-Weinrabe, Nikki Johnstone and Jane Finlayson-Brown
3. Bank-FinTech partnerships: a practitioner’s guide to the evolving policy landscape and key regulatory considerations 75
Jess Cheng, Evis Daum and Mara Alioto
4. Crowdfunding 94
Peter Chapman, Simon Crown and Jade Felber
5. Cryptoassets and initial coin offerings 127
Claude Brown, Romin Dabir, Simon Grieser, Jon Ammons and Hagen Rooke
6. A comparison of the regulation of cryptoasset activities in Europe and the United States 167
Andrea Tinianow and Lewis Cohen
7. Cryptocurrencies and central banks 182
Hubert de Vauplane

PART II. BLOCKCHAIN AND DISTRIBUTED LEDGERS
8. Blockchain in financial services 216
Colleen Baker and Kevin Werbach
9. Smart contracts 244
Jelena Madir
10. Governing the blockchain: what is the applicable law? 268
Harriet Territt
11. Liabilities associated with distributed ledgers: a comparative analysis 295
Dirk Zetzsche, Ross Buckley, Douglas Arner and Anton Didenko
12. Cybersecurity and blockchain 318
Patricia L. de Miranda and Charles Kerrigan
13. Blockchain and privacy 344
Daniel Cooper and Gemma Nash

PART III. REGULATION AND COMPLIANCE
14. RegTech and SupTech: the future of compliance 369
John Ho Hee Jung
15. The rise of TechFins: regulatory challenges 397
Dirk Zetzsche, Ross Buckley and Douglas Arner
16. AI in financial services – the legal and regulatory landscape 420
Jennifer Calver, Peter Church, Jonathan Ford and Kim Rust
17. Regulatory sandboxes 460
Byungkwon Lim and Charles Low updated by Gary E. Murphy and Philip Orange
18. Compliance and whistleblowing: how technology will replace, empower and change whistleblowers 486
Kieran Pender, Sofya Cherkasova and Anna Yamaoka-Enkerlin
19. Regulation of robo-advisory services 524
Lee Reiners
20. Patentability of FinTech inventions 554
Mirjana Stankovic

PART IV. TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN LEGAL SERVICES
21. The innovation process in law firms 576
Sophia Adams-Bhatti
22. Future lawyers: re-imagining legal education 607
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal and Erik P. M. Vermeulen