The Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law, led by CBLP Director, Professor Duncan Sheehan, hosted the 5th Conference on Financial Law and Regulation.
The conference was held on Wednesday–Thursday, 24–25 June 2026 and was organised by Virág Blazsek (University of Leeds, CBLP Deputy Director), Federico Lupo-Pasini (Durham Law School), Andreas Kokkinis (Birmingham Law School), Clara Martins Pereira (Durham Law School), and Ilias Kapsis (City St. George’s Law School). It brought together academics of all levels, regulators, policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate researchers from across the United Kingdom and a large number of other jurisdictions to examine some of the most significant contemporary developments in financial law and regulation.
Left to right: Eilís Ferran (University of Cambridge); Alison Lui (Liverpool John Moores University); Virág Blazsek (University of Leeds)
As the latest instalment of this leading UK conference series on financial law and regulation previously hosted by leading UK institutions, the event reflected the CBLP’s commitment to fostering dialogue between academia, regulators and industry on emerging challenges affecting financial markets, financial stability, and technological innovation. Several CBLP Advisory Board members, Myrte Thijssen (UNIDROIT), Winifred Tarinyeba Kiryabwire (Makerere University), and Zsuzsa Elek (Financial Conduct Authority) joined the conference, too.
Day 1: Financial Regulation and Financial Stability
The first day opened with the panel “Financial Regulation – The Big Picture,” chaired by Virág Blazsek (University of Leeds, CBLP Deputy Director). Speakers examined major structural questions in financial regulation. Federico Riganti (University of Turin and European Banking Institute) explored reforms to pension investment regulation; Eilís Ferran (University of Cambridge) considered the relationship between economic nationalism, private capital and market growth; Dalvinder Singh (University of Warwick) discussed how bank crisis management frameworks should adapt to increasingly complex and interconnected crises; and Pamela Nika (Brunel University) analysed developments in the legal framework governing open banking in the European Union.
![left to right: Eilís Ferran (University of Cambridge); Alison Lui (Liverpool John Moores University); Virág Blazsek (University of Leeds)]](http://essl.leeds.ac.uk/images/resized/750x375-0-0-1-80-1_22.png)
