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Meetings with IMF Legal Counsel on digitalisation/Fintech and climate change

On 9 May 2023, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) of Queen Mary University of London and staff of the IMF legal Department hosted a seminar on Digitalisation/FinTech and Climate Change.

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Professor Rosa Lastra introducing the seminar on Digitalisation/FinTech and Climate Change

Yan Liu, Deputy General Counsel of IMF and Alessandro Gullo, Assistant General Counsel of the IMF, together with Professor Rosa M. Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law (CCLS, Queen Mary) held meetings first at the Bank of England and then at CCLS with officials from the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury to discuss crypto-assets and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and climate change and sustainability. Those participating in the seminar were:

  • Yan Liu (Deputy General Counsel at IMF)
  • Alessandro Gullo (Assistant General Counsel at IMF)
  • Peter King (Director of HM Treasury UK)
  • Keith Vincent (Advisory Lawyer at HM Treasury UK)
  • Tom Berner (Senior Lawyer at HM Treasury UK)
  • Marcel Nengou (Senior Associate Regulatory Lawyer at FCA UK)
  • Phil Greenfield (Senior Lawyer – Technical Specialist at FCA UK)
  • Harriet Nowell-Smith (Green Finance Legal Adviser at HM Treasury UK)
  • Jennifer Bruce (Green Finance Senior Lawyer at FCA UK)
  • Randip Bains, Samuel Giselle, David Geen, Amy Cheung, Temitayo Shittu, Temitayo, Raphael Landesmann (Bank of England)
  • Anne Corrigan, Genevieve Harris, Enid Armstrong, Pilar O’Connor, Paul Avanzato and Matthew Hartley (Bank of England)
  • Rosa M. Lastra (Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary)
  • Sir William Blair (Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary)
  • Daniele D’Alvia (Lecturer in Banking and Finance at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary)

The seminar took place under Chatham House Rules to create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex problems. The guiding spirit of the seminar was to share information among institutional parties and academics, and to further understand common trends in cryptocurrencies and CBDCs as well as in climate change and sustainable related policy issues both at domestic level in the UK, and internationally. 

Some other scholars and post-graduate students and alumni of CCLS – Queen Mary University of London were also in attendance.

 

 

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