International Crypto Asset and Digital Financial Regulation
This one-week executive course provides a detailed, practice-oriented examination of the legal and regulatory frameworks governing digital finance, crypto-assets, platformisation and emerging financial technologies.
| Programme type | One-week executive course |
|---|---|
| Location | This is an in-person course with limited places for remote participation, delivered on LSE campus |
| Start Date | 23–27 March 2026 |
| Duration | One week |
| Fee | £4,000 |
| Course convenor | Professor Philipp Paech, LSE Law School |
Overview
The International Crypto Asset and Digital Financial Regulation executive course considers the re-shaping and re-conceptualisation of significant parts of financial regulation and supervision necessary to enable and control contemporary and future ways of providing and using financial services and products. It equips participants with a set of skills to chart the extended boundaries of regulation and supervision affecting financial services, place legislative projects into context and develop strategies for implementing regulatory changes in practice.
The course provides an in-depth overview of international standards and encompasses insights into relevant EU, UK, PRC and US regulatory approaches. It combines theoretical foundations with concrete regulatory issues, providing participants with a structured understanding of the legal, economic and policy implications of digital finance.
Aims
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand, contextualise and apply the main techniques of financial regulation in rapidly evolving digital financial markets
- Explain the theoretical foundations of regulating increasingly digitised financial services, including the structural changes that underpin the ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘who’ of regulatory design
- Analyse the major policy areas undergoing fundamental overhaul in response to technological innovation, crypto assets, platformisation and new market structures
- Navigate existing and projected regulatory frameworks without needing to cut through highly technical provisions, using practical conceptual tools introduced in the course
- Engage confidently in debates on digital financial regulation and contribute to shaping regulatory approaches within their own jurisdictions as legal practitioners, central bankers, policymakers, researchers or NGO representatives
Target audience
This course is open to participants with a minimum of three years of professional experience related to financial services. It is suitable for:
- Professionals from the financial sector
- Legal practitioners
- Central bankers
- Policy makers and researchers
- NGO representatives
Course content
Topics
- Mapping Crypto-Asset and Digital Finance Regulation
- The Market in Crypto-Assets
- Structure and Logic of Regulatory Regimes
- Regulation of Crypto-Assets Used for Payment
- Regulation of Other Crypto-Assets and Anti-Money Laundering
- International Crypto-Asset Markets and Global Standards
- Central Bank Digital Currencies
- Regulating AI in Financial Services
- Regulating Neo-Banking and Platformisation
- Regulating BigTech in Financial Services
Academic staff
Course convenor
Philipp Paech is an Associate Professor of Law at LSE and has been an educator, researcher, and policy consultant specialising in the regulation and law of financial services for over 20 years. Since 2017, he has focused on the regulation of Digital Finance. He served as the chair of an EU Commission expert group on this subject (‘ROFIEG’), and the group's recommendations became a foundational document for the EU Digital Finance Strategy. Philipp teaches and conducts research at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his educational portfolio includes master's courses in International Financial Regulation, International Financial Law and Digital Finance. Philipp is a Distinguished Global Professor of Law at Notre Dame University in the USA and is an attorney-at-law in Frankfurt, Germany. He consults for institutional clients in London and Frankfurt. His clients include the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Santander, BVBA, the Central Bank of Ireland, and the European Parliament and the European Central Bank.
Course lecturer
Elisabeth Noble is a Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law School and a Senior Policy Advisor and Team Leader at the European Banking Authority. She leads the EBA’s work on crypto-assets, DLT, and the platformisation of financial services and is the EBA coordinator for the European Forum for Innovation Facilitators. She represents the EBA in EU and international standard-setter policy work streams relating to FinTech, market-based finance, financial system interconnectedness, market access and the regulatory perimeter. Prior to joining the EBA, Elisabeth was at the UK’s finance ministry (2008-14) advising primarily on the response to the financial crisis and the post-crisis domestic and EU regulatory reforms, including the reforms to the regulatory architecture in the EU (Banking Union). Elisabeth has also spent some time in the private sector. Her current research interests relate to data access and competition metrics, platformisation and financial sector interconnectedness, and what she describes as ‘the next generation of financial conglomerates’ (new mixed activity groups, including BigTechs).
Professional services staff
Course manager
Amanda Tinnams is the Short Course Manager at LSE Law School, bringing over two decades of experience managing short course programs. Amanda has successfully overseen courses offered on-campus, online and internationally. She is committed to creating impactful learning experiences that combine academic excellence with practical application, supporting professionals and organisations worldwide.