Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law

Abstract From banking and finance to digital data protection, contracts, and taxation, modern financial and commercial practices are heavily impacted by advances in digital technology. This volume presents a comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of all of the major new subjects that have emerged from these developments, including specifically with financial technology (FinTech), regulatory technology, and wider advanced new technology, all of which have come together within the exciting new fields of digital financial law and digital commercial law. The book examines all essential FinTech subjects, such as distributed ledger technology, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, initial coin offerings, stablecoins, central bank digital currency, decentralized finance, decentralized exchanges, non-fungible tokens, and decentralized autonomous organizations, as well as the Metaverse, MultiNet, and ValueNet. The book’s coverage spans across a wide variety of other legal disciplines, including digital contract and digital agency law, digital identity, signatures and cryptography, data protection law, artificial intelligence law, and digital intellectual property. It also spans tax law, competition law, and mergers and acquisitions law as well as financial crime and anti-money laundering. Additionally, the book features advanced comparative law analyses of international, European, UK, US, Japanese, Chinese, Hong Kong, and Singapore FinTech law as well as Islamic law, making this volume an exhaustive treatment of FinTech and digital commercial law across all its impact areas. The book’s mix of law, finance, and technology makes it relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences from many disciplines and jurisdictions.