Description

While the banking sector in Western countries has been heavily hit by the recent financial crisis, the banking sector in China seems to perform well. Nevertheless, the shadow banking system, which is said to be one of a variety of sources for the current financial crisis, is also in existence in China and the situation has turned worse recently. The focus of this talk is to look into the shadow banking system in the Chinese context and “rationalize” governmental responses to the shadow banking regime.

About The Speaker

Professor SHEN Wei is a KoGuan Chair Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School and a Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He obtained his PhD from London School of Economics, and is a lawyer qualified in New York practicing for a decade on foreign direct investment, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. His main research interests include financial regulation, corporate governance, international investment law and commercial arbitration. Professor Shen is the author of the books: Rethinking the New York Convention – A Law and Economics Approach (Cambridge: Intersentia 2013), The Anatomy of China’s Banking Sector and Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 2014), How Is International Economic Order Shaped? – Law, Markets and Globalisation (China Law Press 2014), and Corporate Law in China: Structure, Governance and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell 2015). He is an arbitrator with Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and Shanghai Arbitration Commission.