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Event Report — Demystifying Legaltech: An Introduction

Demystifying Legaltech: An Introduction, set the new academic year at the Oxford Fintech and Legaltech Society (OFLS) off to a great start. The event, with live demonstrations of legaltech at...

Combatting fraudulent transactions with Machine Learning

Financial crime has always been a major concern for financial institutions[1]. Combatting fraud requires an expensive apparatus of algorithms, technology and equipment that must be constantly updated. Also, when fraudulent...

From Micronesia to Blockchain

In the Micronesian island of Yap, there is no ‘money’ in the conventional sense. There are only Rai stones; these are large, round stones which are used as currency, based...

Fintech Investment in the UK: Miracle or Mystery?

Even though Brexit problems remain unsolved and many business sectors in the UK are suffering from this uncertainty, British fintech firms seem to be unaffected by this [1]. Those firms...

Data, Innovation and Transatlantic Competition in Finance: The Case of the Access to Account Rule

In our paper ‘Data, Innovation and Transatlantic Competition in Finance: The Case of the Access to Account Rule’, we focus on the EU regulatory effort, enshrined in Directive 2366/2015 on...

Traditional Financial Services Provider Will Trade using Cryptos

Fidelity Investment, a financial services provider famous for cybersecurity, recently announced the launching of a crypto trading platform and client services dedicated to cryptos. The firm intends to meet the...