Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. in Law, University of Zurich (candidate)
• J.S.M., Stanford University
• Bachelor of Laws, Pontifical Javeriana University

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, January 2022- Present
• Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, Jul 2025-Present 

Previous Appointment:

• Head, Industry Relations, SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance / Centre for Digital Law, 2022-2025
• Research Associate, SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance, 2019-2021
• Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, 2020-2021
• Legal Advisor for digital transformation, innovation and policy affairs, Bancolombia, 2017-2021
• Lecturer in Financial Regulation, University of Los Andes, 2017-2021
• Research Associate, Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, 2015-2017
• Lecturer in Banking Law and Financial Regulation, Pontifical Javeriana University, 2012–2021
• Foreign Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP – New York Office, 2016-2017
• Senior Advisor, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE), 2017
• Manager of Regulation and Policy Affairs, Bancolombia, 2011-2015
• Senior Lawyer - Treasury and Derivatives, Bancolombia, 2010-2011
• Associate, DLA Piper, 2010
• Lawyer of Legal and Enforcement, Self-Regulatory Organization of the Securities Markets, 2008-2009

Other Positions

• Swiss Fintech Innovation Lab, Member, 2021 – present.
• Data and Policy Journal (Cambridge University Press), Member of the Editorial Board Area 4 (Focus on Ethics, Equity and Trust in Policy Data Interactions), 2022 – present.
• Asian Law Schools Association, member of the young scholars and law and technology chapters, 2022 - present. 
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society at GLA University (India), 2021 – present.
• European Corporate Governance Institute, Academic Member, 2021 – present.
• Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Group of Experts in Capital Markets and Financial Regulation, 2016 – present.
• American Law and Economics Association, member, 2015 – present.

Honours & Awards

• Best Class Paper ‘Bitcoin. Regulatory flaws. An analysis based on Mt. Gox case,’ Stanford Policy and Economics class ‘The Future of Law and Finance,’ Stanford University, 2016
• Scholarship awardee, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS) Fellow, 2015
• Scholarship Awardee, Foundation for the Future of Colombia – Colfuturo, 2015
• Best Paper, Architects of the Colombian Securities Market National Contest, Colombian Stock Exchange. Paper: Alternative Investment Market: assessment and proposals for its deepening from the perspective of small and medium enterprises, 2011
• Member of the honour roll of best GPA, Pontifical Javeriana University

Courses Taught in SMU

• Fintech Law
• Financial Regulation in Singapore, Hong Kong and Greater China

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Banking Law
• Capital Markets and Financial Regulation
• Fintech
• Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance
• Sustainable Finance
• Comparative Law
• Corporate Law and Finance

Selected Publications

• Nydia Remolina, 'Generative AI in Finance: Risks and Potential Solutions', Law Ethics and Technology Journal. Special Issue: The Law and Ethics of Generative AI (forthcoming).
• Nydia Remolina, 'DeFi and the Metaverse: Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Decentralisation of Financial Services', in Hung-Yi Chen, Pawee Jenweeranon and Nafis Alam (eds), Global Perspectives in the Metaverse (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
• Nydia Remolina, 'Open Finance: Regulatory Challenges of the Evolution of Data Sharing Arrangements in the Financial Sector' (2023), Banking and Finance Law Review, Vol 40, Issue 1, Special Issue on Fintech, pp. 35-66.
• Nydia Remolina, 'Interconnectedness and Financial Stability in the Era of Artificial Intelligence', in Nydia Remolina and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez (eds), The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Sector: Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges (Edward Elgar, 2023) pp. 350-368.
• Nydia Remolina, 'Towards a Data-Driven Financial System: The Impact of COVID-19’, in Asian Development Bank Institute (ed), Fintech and COVID-19 (ADBI, 2022)
• Nydia Remolina, 'Global Challenges and Regulatory Strategies to Fintech' (2020), Banking and Finance Law Review, Vol 36, Issue 1, pp. 39- 74 (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez).
• Nydia Remolina, 'The Dark Side of the Implementation of Basel’s Capital Requirements: Theory, Evidence and Policy' (2019) Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, Vol 22, Issue, 1, pp. 125-152 (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez).

For additional publications, please see SSRN.

Selected Blog Posts

• Nydia Remolina, Governance with and of AI: The Role of Ethics, Equity, and Trustworthiness, Data & Policy Blog, Blog for Data & Policy, a journal at Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Nydia Remolina, Regulating auditing algorithms: An Asian solution? European Corporate Governance Institute Blog (Technology and Governance), 2022
• Nydia Remolina, Open Banking: Regulatory Challenges for a New Form of Financial Intermediation in a Data-Driven World, Machine Lawyering Blog (Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development of the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2019
• Nydia Remolina, Contextualizing Regulatory Sandboxes in Latin America, Fintech Policy Blog, 2019