On 12 August 2025, the Centre for Banking & Finance Law hosted Professor Kish Parella from  Washington and Lee University School of Law, United States, who presented on the topic, ‘Supply Chain Resilience in Emerging Technologies.’ The US has announced a series of critical and emerging technology plans to bolster national security, one of which is the establishment of a federal strategic reserve of cryptocurrency. Professor Parella noted that achieving this national security goal depends on the resilience of two types of supply chains within the Bitcoin mining industry: analogue supply chains (hardware components) and data supply chains (software components).

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”.

On 8 July 2025, the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) was pleased to welcome Professor Dr Martin Wenz, Professor of National and International Tax Law, Chair for Business Taxation and the Laws of International and Liechtenstein Taxation, University of Liechtenstein to present his seminar entitled “Mobility of individuals and alternative nexuses to establish and allocate taxing rights on income and wealth in an era of international tax competition.” Professor Wenz was joined by Dr Kasem Zotkaj, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in International Taxation, University of Liechtenstein.

Deputy Director Christian Hofmann participated in the fourth edition of the SRB Legal Conference Banking Crises – Law, Policy and Practice: European and Global Perspectives on 18 June 2025. He spoke on Panel 3 which addressed the topic Banking Crisis Management Frameworks: A Comparative Perspective on How and What Works Around the Globe

On 22 April 2025, the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) was pleased to welcome Professor Hannah Lim Yee-Fen from Nanyang Technological University to present her seminar entitled “Tracing crypto-currencies, mixed funds and other legal quandaries.” The seminar, which was moderated by Associate Professor Sandra Booysen, Director of CBFL was held at the Lee Sheridan Conference Room and was well attended by academics, legal practitioners, and regulators alike.

On 25 March 2025, Dr Sandra Booysen, Director of the Centre for Banking and Financial Law (CBFL), delivered a public seminar at the University of Cape Town on regulatory responses to payment fraud.

NUS Law’s Centre for Banking and Finance Law was privileged to host Mr Patrick Tay, Member of Parliament (Pioneer SMC) and Assistant Secretary-General in the NTUC, to speak to students, practitioners and members of the public on the topic ‘Labour Movement, Employment and Industrial Relations Law in Singapore’ on Tuesday 18 March 2025.

CBFL Deputy Director Christian Hofmann co-taught a course on Central Bank Digital Currencies for central bank payment experts from 19 Asian jurisdictions at the International Monetary Fund's Singapore Regional Training Institute from 17 to 21 March 2025. 

On 11 February 2025, the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) was pleased to welcome Professor Jo Braithwaite from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Law School to present her seminar titled “Authorised Push Payment Bank Fraud: Is the UK’s regulatory response the right one?”. Associate Professor Sandra Booysen, Director of CBFL, moderated the seminar which was the final instalment in the CBFL 10th Anniversary Seminar Series which began in October 2024 in conjunction with CBFL’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

On 7 February 2025, the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) was pleased to welcome Professor Orkun Akseli from the University of Manchester Law School to present his seminar titled “Secured Transactions in Global Lawmaking”. This seminar was the penultimate instalment in CBFL’s 10th Anniversary Seminar Series and was moderated by Associate Professor Sandra Booysen, Director of CBFL. Professor Akseli took the participants through a brief history of transnational lawmaking in the secured transactions law context.

On 3 February 2025, the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) was pleased to welcome Dr. Karl-Philipp Wojcik, General Counsel of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) to present the CBFL Distinguish Visitor Lecture. Associate Professor Christian Hofmann, Deputy Director of CBFL, moderated the lecture titled “Bank Resolution for Financial Stability in the European Banking Union”. The distinguished visitor lecture was delivered in Dr. Wojcik’s personal capacity and do not represent the official views or opinions of the SRB or any European Union (EU) organ.

'The Community Interest in the Cape Town Convention' has been published in the Cape Town Convention Journal, vol. 9 (1) 2024. The Cape Town Convention is viewed as a private law convention, with one of its principal objectives being to insulate creditors’ and lessors’ interests in aircraft objects from the often-turbulent finances that characterize the international civil aviation industry. The article argues that the Cape Town Convention reflects what international legal theory calls a ‘community interest’ – specifically, the community interest in the creation of global markets. Jack Wright Nelson is a CBFL Associate Academic Fellow and the Editor of the Annals of Air and Space Law (McGill University).