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Faculty Profile

Yong Pung How School of Law YPHSL

Nydia REMOLINA LEON

Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Law; Head, Industry Relations, Centre for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG)
  • 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

Previous Appointment:

  • 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).

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