Introduction The tokenisation of government securities — the representation of sovereign debt instruments as blockchain-based digital tokens — is among the most consequential experiments currently underway at the intersection of
Introduction The Reserve Bank of India launched its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots — the Digital Rupee — in late 2022, becoming one of a handful of major economies
Introduction The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023 — the second-largest bank failure in US history — was remarkable not merely for its scale but for its
Introduction Co-lending, the practice by which a bank and an NBFC jointly originate and fund loans to priority sector borrowers, was formalised by the RBI through its Co-Lending Model (CLM)
Introduction The integration of climate risk into banking regulation has moved with unusual speed from a fringe concern to a mainstream prudential imperative. Five years ago, the idea that a
Introduction India’s Account Aggregator (AA) framework, launched through the RBI’s master direction in 2016 and operationalised at scale from 2021, is among the most ambitious financial data portability initiatives anywhere
Introduction When the Reserve Bank of India released its comprehensive Digital Lending Guidelines in September 2022, the response from the fintech lending industry was a mixture of relief and alarm.
Introduction The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), established in 1984 and operating from its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, occupies a position in the global sports governance ecosystem that is
Introduction The principle of Kompetenz-Kompetenz — the competence of an arbitral tribunal to rule on its own jurisdiction — is among the most foundational doctrines in international arbitration. It serves
Introduction Cryptocurrency disputes present arbitration practitioners with a novel category of jurisdictional challenge: the assets in dispute are simultaneously accessible everywhere in the world and located nowhere in particular. A