Levin College of Law

Course Number: LAW 6936 Credits: 2

Technology is redefining financial services—including the way actors make and settle payments, raise capital, extend loans, and memorialize increasingly complex relationships. At the same time, new innovations—from crowdfunding to robo-advising, high frequency trading, marketplace lending, mobile payments, and digital assets—are creating novel legal and regulatory issues. This course provides an overview of the key developments reshaping finance and the rules adopted to oversee them. This seminar provides an opportunity to satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement.