Law & FinTech Conference 2025 (31 July – 1 Aug)

On 31 July and 1 August 2025, the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) and the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law held the Law & FinTech Conference 2025. The conference was convened by Associate Professor Christian Hofmann, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, who is also the Deputy Director of CBFL.

The conference was opened with a keynote address by Professor Henry T. C. Hu, Professor and Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas on “The Bitcoin-Gold False Equivalence”.

The two-day conference brought together legal scholars, practitioners, and regulators from New Zealand, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Asia – including Singapore, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and India. The regulatory and doctrinal challenges posed by technological innovation in the financial sector were discussed across six thematically structured panels, namely: (i) payment services; (ii) central bank digital currencies (CBDCs); (iii) artificial intelligence in finance, (iv) decentralised finance (DeFi), (v) cryptoasset regulation and insolvency; and (vi) fintech-driven transformations in banking. Over the course of the conference, presenters and participants engaged with emerging legal frameworks, enforcement issues, and conceptual questions at the intersection of financial law and digitalisation across the globe.

EWBCLB and CBFL would like to acknowledge the insightful and valuable contributions of the conference presenters and the rigorous exchange of ideas over the course of the conference and beyond. The presenters were (in alphabetical order):

• Lecturer Lance Ang (Singapore University of Social Sciences)
• Mr Gabriel Bizama (University of Bern)
• Mr Ryan Chan-Wei (National University of Singapore)
• Ms Yaru Chia (Clifford Chance Singapore)
• Mr Nanjwan Damap (University of Derby)
• Associate Professor Joon Hyug Chung (Seoul National University)
• Professor Jodi Gardner (University of Auckland)
• Senior Lecturer Gabriella Gimigliano (University of Siena)
• Associate Professor Christian Hofmann (National University of Singapore)
• Professor Henry T. C. Hu (University of Texas)
• Professor Flora Huang (University of Derby)
• Ms Cecilia Isola (University of Genoa)
• Associate Professor Johanna Jacques (Durham University)
• Associate Professor Akshaya Kamalnath (Australian National University)
• Associate Professor Emily Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
• Associate Professor Hannah Yee-Fen Lim (Nanyang Technological University)
• Associate Professor Lin Lin (National University of Singapore)
• Reader Alison Lui (Liverpool John Moores University)
• Professor William Magnuson (Texas A&M University)
• Professor Eva Micheler (London School of Economics)
• Associate Professor Andrea Miglionico (Reading University)
• Assistant Professor Rachel Phang (Singapore Management University)
• Mr Matteo Sini (Single Resolution Board)
• Assistant Professor Daile Xia (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
• Lecturer Yingying Zhu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Further details on the special issue(s) will be provided in due course.

The full programme of the Law & FinTech Conference 2025 with presentation titles can be found here.