Financial Law and Regulation Conference

Conference programme

Tuesday, 12 September
– Registration 9:15-9:45

– Welcome 9:45-10:00: David Kershaw (Dean, LSE Law School)

Panel 1: Regulatory Competition and Regulatory Cooperation, 10:00 – 11:30
– Elizabeth Howell (LSE) ‘Post-Brexit Global Trading Arrangements: Are there
Implications for UK/EU Financial Services Relations?’
– Thomas Varouchakis Papadogiannis (Nottingham) ‘The European Securitisation
Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field’
– David Murphy and Sarah Paterson (LSE), ‘Mediating the conflicts between policy
goals in equity markets’
– Commentators: Eilís Ferran (Cambridge); Jennifer Hill (Monash)
– Chair: Niamh Moloney (LSE)

Coffee 11:30 – 12:00

Session discussing an Association of Financial Lawyers, 12:00 – 13:00

Lunch 13:00-14:00

Panel 2: Digitising Securities and Digital Assets, 14:00-15:30
– Renato Mangano (Palermo), ‘Commercial law and non-fungible tokes. How Searle’s
social ontology can help courts, policymakers and lawmakers to deal with the latest
bravura of businesspeople’
– Ilias Kapsis (City), ‘Proposing a New Model for the regulation of digital assets and
technological innovation’
– Philipp Paech (LSE), ‘Regulating “crypto” – The rationales and limits of making rules
for novel markets’
– Chair: Eva Micheler (LSE)

Coffee 15:30-16:00

Panel 3: Regulating digitalisation and changing market structures, 16:00-17:30
– Wojtek Buczynski (Cambridge), ‘AI regulations in investment management’
– Kuzi Charamba (HKU), ‘Building castles in the sky? The construction of decentralised
financial legal orders’
– Isa Alade (Deakin), ‘What does FinTech mean for Africa?’
– Chair: Philipp Paech (LSE)

Public lecture, 18:30-19:30, Auditorium, LSE Centre Building

“Ten Years of Twin Peaks: Successes, Failures and Future Challenges”
The UK supervisory system of separate prudential (PRA) and conduct (FCA) regulation has
been in place since 2013. In this public lecture, Charles Randell, who was a member of the
Prudential Regulation Authority and subsequently chaired the Financial Conduct Authority,
will discuss some of the successes of this system, some of its failures and the biggest
challenges which lie ahead.

Speaker: Charles Randell

Charles Randell practised corporate finance law at Slaughter and May for 33 years, and was
the Government’s lead external lawyer during the global financial crisis. In 2013 he became
a member of the Prudential Regulation Authority and in 2018 was appointed Chair of the
Financial Conduct Authority. He is now a Senior Consultant to Slaughter and May.
Chair: Julia Black (LSE)

End of Day 1

Reception for conference invitees (by invitation only), LSE Shaw Library, from 19:45

Wednesday, 13 September

Panel 4: Culture in Financial Regulation, 9:30-11:00
– Andreas Kokkinis (Birmingham) and Anat Keller (King’s College London): ‘The Senior
Managers and Certification Regime in Financial Firms: an Organisational Culture
Analysis’
– Eleanore Hickman (Bristol) ‘Is the Senior Managers and Certification Regime Changing
Banking for Good’
– Victoria Barnes(Queen’s University Belfast), Francesco De Pascalis(Brunel), and Ragini
Surana (Max Planck) ‘Slashing the Boardroom: Regulating the Culture of International
Bank Management’
– Commentators: Alan Brener (UCL), Costanza Russo (Queen Mary)
– Chair: Eva Micheler (LSE)

Coffee 11:00-11:30

Panel 5: Developments in Monetary Law and Financial Regulation on ESG and Sustainable
Finance, 11:30-13:00
– Pieterjan Heynen (KU Leuven), ‘The ECB Going Green’
– Longjie Lu (Edinburgh), ‘Regulating ESG Rating Firms’
– Stephanie Fontana Raina and Sebastian Grund (IMF), ‘Debt for Nature Swaps’
– Commentator: Federico Lupo-Pasini (Durham)
– Chair: Rosa Lastra (Queen Mary)

Lunch 13:00-14:00

Panel 6: Developments in Systemic Risk 14:00-15:30
– Narine Lalafaryan (Cambridge), ‘The Evolution of Corporate Finance and the Firm’
– David A. Wishnick (Georgetown), ‘Climate Stress and the Future of Financial Stability’
– Vincenzo Bavoso (Manchester), ‘The LDI debacle, derivatives and systemic risk –
there you go again’

– Chair: Julia Black (LSE)

Closing remarks by Julia Black (LSE)

End of conference 15:30

Please sign up here to register for this event.

The conference is organised by Elizabeth Howell (LSE), Eva Micheler (LSE), Philipp Paech (LSE), Federico Lupo-Pasini (Durham) and Andreas Kokkinis (Birmingham).