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About the Seminar

The economic losses triggered by COVID-19 prompted the implementation of an unprecedented array of public measures. As economies are shifting from the emergency to the recovery phase, a range of new initiatives have been launched to stimulate market-based mechanisms to finance businesses.

Drawing from his first-hand experience in law reforms, Giuliano examines the main trends driving post-pandemic economic recovery to provide the audience with knowledge over current regulatory debates and impending challenges. With particular focus on asset-based lending and factoring, the seminar will cover the following areas:

1. Credit products: structures and current applications.
2. Role of regulation: licensing regimes and prudential requirements.
3. The role of technology: regulatory implications and future developments.

About the Speaker

Giuliano G. Castellano is an Associate Professor and a Deputy Director at Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law. He previously held position as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick and as an LSE Fellow at the LSE, Department of Law. He holds a Law Degree (Bocconi University), a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (Ecole Polytechnique), a PhD in Law (University of Turin). Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of a project on “Creating Credit: Law Reforms, Policy Tensions, and Disruptive Technologies” funded by the General Research Fund of the Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC).

Giuliano’s research focuses on financial regulation, international commercial law, and law and technology. He has been serving as a delegate and as an expert for UNCITRAL, where he participated in the drafting of the Model Law on Secured Transactions, and for UNIDROIT, where he has been working on the Factoring Model Law. Moreover, Giuliano has been collaborating with multilateral development agencies, such as the World Bank, to reform the legal and regulatory framework in over twenty jurisdictions across Asia-Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Northern Africa, and Sub-Sharan Africa.