Digital Finance Law: Common and Civil Law (Routledge Research in International Commercial Law)

This book assesses the rapidly changing landscape of digital finance regulation.Focusing on the laws of banking-finance, tax, insurance, intellectual property (patents and copyright) and international commercial arbitration, it also delves into the regulation of tokens and the laws pertaining to its development, use, and transaction. The book undertakes a comparative study of civil and common law jurisdictions such as Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom, European Union, and the United States.It explores how each jurisdiction is at various stages of developing its digital economy and providing banking and financial regulations for crypto-digital assets such as tokens.It also highlights the potential for global regulatory change and collaboration, such that there is a robust, efficient, and harmonised framework of standards, codes and law.The book asserts that blockchain technology will be a disruptive force to commercial law and will be important to taxation and insurance