On April 21-22, 2018,the Spring Forum of Chinese Journal of Law in 2018:theSeminar on the Stable Development of Finance and Its Legal Safeguards in a New Era, jointly organized by the Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Law and the Law School of Nanjing University, was held in Nanjing.
The opening ceremony of the seminar was presided over by Professor Zhang Guangxing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Law. Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Law, and Professor Ye Jinqiang, Dean of the Law School of Nanjing University, each gave a speech at the ceremony, in which they both expressed the hope that the seminar would be able to promote the academic exchange in the field of financial law and contribute to the stable development of the finance in China in a new era.
The seminar was divided into six units, in which the participants gave speeches and carried out discussions on various issues around the theme of the seminar, including: the change of the mode of financial regulation against the background of the development financial technologies, the application of financial regulation technologies, the influence of financial technologies on financial services, financial transaction and the legal relationship between them, the liability of commercial banks for environmental damages, reform of the financial regulation system, legal status of the infrastructure of financial market, the criminal law boundary of internet finance, legislation on blockchain and digital currency,the issuance and regulation of digital currency, the reform of and judicial intervention in the system liberalization of interest rate, the fiduciary duties of intelligent investment advisors, the use of artificial intelligence in the financial industry, the practice and institutional reform of Non-Performing Asset Securitization, commercial bank green credit, differential regulation of securities, legal restraint of the power of financial regulation, the legal responsibility of commercial banks against the background of climate change, prudential carve-out in China’s free trade agreements, the role of courts in the management of financial risks,and the regulation of financial technologies.
At the closing ceremony, presided over by Professor Feng Jue, an editor of Chinese Journal of Law, Professor Zhou Zhongfei, Executive Vice President of China Executive Leadership AcademyPudong, and Professor Hong Yanrong from the Law school of Peking University each gave a summarization of the seminar.