LLM Fintech Law

LLM Fintech Law

This specialized LLM will equip you with expert knowledge in Financial Technology (FinTech) law and regulation. Recent developments in FinTech are having an increasing effect on the way individuals, businesses and governments save, borrow, spend and invest. This Masters’s will introduce key alternative finance products and services such as mobile payments, crowdfunding, cryptoassets, private digital currencies, stable coins, decentralized finance, and the approaches to central bank digital currencies. These services have been facilitated by technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT) blockchain, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. You will also enhance your professional skills, awareness, and ability to locate, interpret, analyse and criticise laws, rules, policies and practices on international financing, financial markets and the impact of technology in the financial services industry. This programme will also provide specialist knowledge of the key role that the law and technology play in facilitating international financial transactions such as syndicated lending and international bond issues.

Modules

  • Financial Technology (FinTech) Regulation (Core)
  • Regulation of Financial Markets (Core)
  • Law of International Finance (Core)
  • International Law and Business (Optional)
  • International Corporate Governance (Optional)
  • Economic Integration in Developing Countries (Optional)
  • The Law of the World Trade Organisation and Globalisation (Optional)
  • Dissertation

Employability

After completing this program, you would be able to work in roles including financial/FinTech compliance specialists; lawyers within financial/FinTech institutions and law firms that have finance practice areas (they would need to have qualified in their chosen jurisdiction of practice); financial regulators and policymakers within government departments such as the ministry of finance/ treasury.