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Fintech and the city: Sandbox 2.0 policy and regulatory reform proposals
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
Recognising the economic value of London hosting 17 of the world’s top 50 FinTech firms, HM Treasury’s strategy is determined ‘to ensure Britain remains the best place in the world to set up and grow a FinTech business.’ ...
Finance and fairness: enhancing the customer dispute resolution scheme (CDRS) in the Qatar financial centre (QFC)
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
The Customer Dispute Resolution Scheme (CDRS) is the primary dispute resolution mechanism for financial disputes involving retail clients in the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC). As the QFC has grown the CDRS has also ...
Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data
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Routledge
, 2020 , Article)
This article explores the legal and ethical implications of big data’s pursuit of human ‘digital thought clones’. It identifies various types of digital clones that have been developed and demonstrates how the pursuit of ...
Draft legal framework for shared water resources in the Arab World: is it really needed?
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
Attempts to establish a regional water convention covering shared water resources in the Arab world have been ongoing for more than a decade. During this time, a Draft Arab Water Convention has been proposed, and the content ...
A Sandbox Approach to Regulating High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Applications
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article)
This paper argues for a sandbox approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to complement a strict liability regime. The authors argue that sandbox regulation is an appropriate complement to a strict liability ...
Governance in the era of Blockchain technology in Qatar: a roadmap and a manual for Trade Finance
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2021 , Article)
Nations worldwide have sought to capitalize on the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) including Blockchain, but struggled to strike a balance between encouraging investment and innovation in the technology ...
Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu and ZHANG Qi, The Political Economy of WTO Implementation and China’s Approach to Litigation in the WTO
(2017 , Article)
1. There is no gainsaying that international trade is the fulcrum of the world economy. No country can function meaningfully without trade or economic relations with other countries. At the heart of the global trade is the ...
Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism
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Oxford Academic
, 2015 , Article)
Chinese and Emirati purchases of US companies have collapsed because of suspicions that their Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) status is a disguise for political ambitions. SWFs have grown in size and number, drawing the attention ...
Deutsche Bank and the Use of Promises in Islamic Finance Contracts
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SSRN- Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
This paper examines the concept of a promise, an essential tool for Islamic financial transactions that has facilitated the development of structured Sharī‘ah-compliant financing arrangements and mitigated much of the risk ...
Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
The vast transactional, trust and security advantages of Bitcoin are dwarfed by the intentionally resource-intensive design in its transaction verification process which now threatens the climate we depend upon for survival. ...