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Introduction to Decentralised Finance: Trusting a Trustless System
Does Decentralised Finance (DeFi) trump Centralised finance (CeFi)? This week Michael A. Bentley, an Oxford alumnus who founded Euler xyz, a permissionless lending protocol based on Ethereum, gave his views...
Legaltech 101 Workshop Series: The Truths about Law Firms & Technology
Led by Partner Shruti Ajitsaria, A&O FUSE is the Magic Circle firm’s in-house tech innovation incubator. It aims to provide innovative legaltech start-ups with experiential learning opportunities within the traditional...
OFLS Hosts Social Dilemma Panel Discussion
OFLS recently brought together Jeff Orlowski (Director of the Netflix Documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’), Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, and Megan Ma (pre-eminent academics in the fields of Law...
Legaltech 101 Workshop Series: Student to Founder — The Legaltech Journey
Our Hilary Term Card was kickstarted by the first session of our Legaltech 101 Workshop Series with Chang Zi Qian, co-founder of INTELLLEX, recounting his entrepreneurial journey in the legaltech...
OFLS Closes Michaelmas Term 2020 with Events on Data Privacy, Digital Assets and Sustainability.
As Michaelmas Term drew to a close, the Oxford Fintech and Legaltech Society (OFLS) rounded out its term card with a trio of fantastic speaker-events. Reaching across fintech and legaltech,...
The European Commission’s Investigation against Amazon for Anti-Competitive use of Vendor Data on its Digital Marketplace
On 10 November 2020, the European Commission initiated a second antitrust investigation against US e-commerce giant Amazon, and issued a Statement of Objections in relation to an earlier procedure commenced...
Event Report — Tech Law and the Modern Lawyer
In our most recent event, Rajesh Sreenivasan, head of Rajah & Tann Technologies, shared his insights of how technology is amplifying and augmenting the practice of law. Rajesh has a...
Event Report — Open Banking: A Business Perspective
During our most recent event, Dharmesh Mistry shared lessons from his extensive experience of digitising banks in the UK. With over 30 years’ experience, Dharmesh has been keenly involved in...
Event Report — Robot Directors and Directors’ and Officers’ Liability ‘Insurance’: Adapt or Die
Boardrooms function as the nucleus of the corporate machine, wielding control over the key decisions within the firm. The high-stakes nature of such decisions typically invokes the most human of...
Event Report — Fintech 101 : What is Fintech and why should I care?
Data and technology are power. Especially when this ‘power’ is wielded by heavyweights in the financial sphere. In this introductory event, Domenico Piers De Martino, former President of the Oxford...
