FIBRWG - Finance, Innovation and Business Regulation Working Group

The Finance, Innovation and Business Regulation Working Group (FIBR) brings together researchers working on topics related to the regulation of banking and finance, innovative products and technologies and business conduct. Across these themes, the group aims to advance debates on the challenges arising from legislative developments, regulatory competition or conflict, and globalisation. Indicative topics of interest range from intellectual property systems to the conduct of multinational business and the need for sustainable growth.

The group is a forum for discussions and presentations relating to topics across these fields. It also aims to host presentations of work-in-progress by current PhD and LLM researchers. Researchers and Fellows from all departments and the Robert Schuman Centre are welcome to attend and contribute, as the working group seeks to facilitate synergies in research as well as interdisciplinary approaches.

Academic Year 2024-2025

• 15 November 2024 - Alvaro de Juan Garcia (Spanish Public Prosecutor): “The willful blindness doctrine as a challenge of white collar crime - European finance schemes context”.
• 5 November 2024 – Panel discussion by Giulia Schneider (Catholic University in Milan), Luca Tenreira (European University Institute), Pranav Putcha (EUI), Kunhao Yang (EUI), Elena Calsamiglia (EUI), Federica Agostini (University of Utrecht), Prof. Mathias Siems (EUI - Law Department), Alessio Bartolacelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Vito Bevivino (Ca' Foscari University), Riccardo Ghetti (University of Bologna), Sara Addamo (Mercatorum University), Ludovica Chiussi (University of Bologna), Camilla Faggioni (University of Trento), Valerio Novembre (EUI), Michele Corgatelli (University of Bologna): “Symposium on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive”.
• 17 October 2024 - Colin Mayer (University of Oxford): “In quest of (corporate) purpose - Bridging private and public spheres for shared prosperity”.

Academic Year 2023-2024

• 23 April 2024 - Virginijus Bitė (Mykolas Romeris University): “Company law of the Baltic states”.
• 22 February 2024 - Virág Blazsek (University of Leeds): “Secondary financial and FinTech centres and the financial sector’s transformation - A comparative analysis of the US, the UK, and Singapore”.
• 13 December 2023 - Sarah Vandenbroucke (Leiden University) and Gustavo Becker (University of Luxembourg & University of Amsterdam): “Walking the talk? Corporate Commitments vs. Actions in Global Supply Chain Labor Standards”.
• 21 November 2023 - Deirdre Ahern (Trinity College Dublin; Visiting Fellow, EUI) and Jingchen Zhao (Nottingham Law School; Fernand Braudel Fellow, EUI): “Corporations and Sustainability: fresh perspectives”.

Past Events

Activity Report 2016-2024