“BigTech” in the Financial Sector: More Choice for the Consumer, More Challenges for the Regulator?
It’s a brand new season of the SEACEN Podcast! In this first episode, SEACEN financial sector supervision experts Mark McKenzie and Glenn Tasky talk with prolific writer and educator Professor Douglas Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law and Co-Founder, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, about the entry of BigTech – companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba, and Tencent – into the provision of financial services such as lending, payments, and even exotic cross-border instruments such as stablecoins. What are the benefits these big players bring, and what are the risks of allowing firms that are already big in other markets potentially dominate banking as well?
https://anchor.fm/the-seacen-centre/embed/episodes/SEACEN-Podcast-Season-3-Episode-1—In-Conversation-with-Prof–Douglas-Arner-ea5r1a
Publication Update
We are pleased to announce the latest working paper (WP6/2026), authored by SEACEN MMPM Director Dr. Donghyun Park, Prof. Joao Tovar Jalles( Lisbon School of Economics and Management), and John
