Guido Ferrarini

Professor Ferrarini holds a J. D. (University of Genoa), an LL.M. (Yale Law School) and a Dr. jur. (h.c., Ghent University).
He is a founder, director and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels.
He is chairman of EuroTLX (a multilateral trading facility) and a board member of Banca Passadore.
Professor Ferrarini was a member of the Board of Trustees, International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), London and an independent director at some Italian blue-chip companies (Atlantia, Telecom Italia and TIM).
He was an advisor to the Draghi Commission on Financial Markets Law Reform, to Consob (the Italian Securities Commission) and to the Corporate Governance Committee of the Italian Stock Exchange.
He held Visiting Professorships at several universities in Europe (Bonn, Frankfurt, Ghent, Hamburg, LSE, UCL, Tilburg and Duisenberg) and the US (Columbia, NYU and Stanford), teaching courses on comparative corporate governance and financial regulation. He is author of many articles in the fields of financial law, corporate law and business law, and editor of several books, including the recent Financial Regulation and Supervision: A Post-crisis Analysis (with E. Wymeersch and K. Hopt).

Regulating FinTech: Crowdfunding and Beyond

December 23, 2017 by Guido Ferrarini

The challenges posed by FinTech to regulation are similar to those raised by financial innovation in general. The first is to identify those areas of the law dealing with each type of Fintech instrument or institution. The second challenge is to establish whether regulation should be incrementally adapted to the various types of FinTech focussing […]

Cross-Border Banking and the SSM

March 2, 2016 by Guido Ferrarini

In this article, I try to assess the likely impact of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) on cross-border banking in Europe. Firstly, I analyse the limits of the SSM, which is grounded on supervisory cooperation even though the ECB has powers of direction and substitution with respect to national supervisors. Indeed, the SSM represents a […]