CBFL Seminar by Benedikt Bartylla & Christian Bergqvist

SEP
2025
Description

Foreign Stablecoins in Domestic Payment Streams – Regulatory Approaches in Comparative Perspective by Benedikt Bartylla, University of Marburg  
A new form of digital money is proliferating globally: stablecoins. As jurisdictions ramp up regulatory efforts, national laws are increasingly shaping—and fragmenting—the stablecoin business. This divergence threatens a core promise of stablecoins: facilitating low-cost cross-border payments. Growing regulatory divergence also opens the door to arbitrage. In a world of fragmented stablecoin regulation, one question becomes crucial: How can foreign-issued stablecoins legally enter domestic payment streams? The seminar examines how the laws of the EU, the US, and the UK address this question. 
Syndicated Loans and Competition Law by Christian Bergqvist, University of Copenhagen  
While the issuance of loans to companies is a core functionality of modern banking, the size or risk, of a request can exceed the limits, or appetite, of a single bank giving ground for syndication where the funding comes from a collegium of lenders. While on one hand providing better risk management and inducing competition, syndication can also limit competition, if participants tacitly or explicitly coordinate prices or bids or (ab)use the situation to bundle services. Or at least this is the concern, as neither theory nor an EU study provides clear support for this. Nevertheless, competition law should be taken into consideration when loans are syndicated, as the topic has crossed the radar of several enforcers.
About the Speaker
Benedikt Bartylla is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Institute for the Law and Regulation of Digitization (IRDi), University of Marburg, Germany. His research focuses on cross-border aspects and comparative perspectives of tech regulation, particularly in the area of crypto regulation. He holds an LL.B. and a Law Diploma from Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, and has recently been a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. 
Christian Bergqvist is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He specializes in EU Competition Law, with a particular interest in its application to deregulated and network tied sectors (telecom, energy, post, and transport), abuse of dominance in general and within these sectors. Recently, Christian's has been researching and writing about platforms, Big Tech, and the companies collectively referred to as FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google). Before becoming a full-time academic, Christian spent five years as a lawyer at a Tier 1-law firm, representing clients before the judicial and administrative bodies on competition law matters. 

Public CPD Points: 1.5 (tbc)
Area: Banking & Finance
Training Level: General 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Date and Time

Thursday, 18th September 2025 3:30PM GMT+08:00
Thursday, 18th September 2025 5:30PM GMT+08:00
Organisation

Faculty of Law
Contact Email

cbfl@nus.edu.sg
Location

Lee Sheridan Conference Room, NUS Law Bukit Timah Campus, 469G Bukit Timah Rd