The Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) and the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) co-hosted a symposium with the Commercial Law Centre (CLC), Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford held at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore from 26 to 27 July 2018. This was convened by CBFL’s Director, Associate Professor Dora Neo, and CLC’s Director, Professor Louise Gullifer. The symposium examined secured transactions law reform in Asia with in-depth studies of selected Asian jurisdictions and discussed the broader context of law reform in other jurisdictions internationally. It also considered general issues such as the connection between secured transactions and insolvency.

Symposium participants were drawn from a variety of jurisdictions around the world, including Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam.