Jo is a professor of international commercial finance law at the London School of Economics Law School. Her research interests relate to the use of private law in the international markets, with a particular focus on the derivatives markets, the use of standard form contracts and the resilience of financial market infrastructure. Recent projects have included an analysis of the legal response to bank fraud; a book published by Cambridge University Press on the role of the courts in the global financial markets (The Financial Courts; joint winner of the Main Book Prize awarded by the Inner Temple); and several studies into the law and regulation of CCPs (a type of financial market infrastructure).
Jo has a PhD from the University of London, a LLM degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Thouron scholar, and a BA(Hons) from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship during her PhD. Before undertaking her PhD, she qualified as a solicitor and practised in a City law firm. Jo teaches various financial, banking and commercial law subjects and is a PhD supervisor. She has won several LSE awards for teaching and education.
- Banking Law
- Financial Market Infrastructure
- Private Law of Financial Markets
- Consumer financial protection
Research Project
Optimising the regulatory response to “authorised push payment” bank fraud: Insights from the UK and Singapore
“Authorised push payment” fraud harms victims, reduces trust in the banking system and has significantly increased since the pandemic. When this kind of fraud involves authorised bank transfers, however, there have traditionally been no legal or regulatory routes to redress for victims. In the UK, a ‘world first’ reimbursement scheme has recently been implemented (October 2024). Building on the banking sector’s voluntary measures, the scheme provides for mandatory refunds to APP fraud victims in some cases. This research project builds on the author’s work on the new UK scheme, engaging further with the policy debates around the optimal regulatory response to APP fraud and developing insights from the UK and Singapore.
