Research at the ADA Chair
The Chair offers world-leading research on EU, Luxembourg and international financial law and regulation, with a focus on collective investment schemes, financial technologies and sustainable finance.
We frequently collaborate with regulators around the world to promote financial inclusion, aiming to improve access to, utilization and the quality of financial services.
The ADA Chair also offers the ‘Certificate in Law and Regulation of Inclusive Finance’, which is held once a year in January, in Luxembourg.
A world-leading research institution in Luxembourg
Financial Law and Financial Inclusion
The ADA Chair staff has published over 400 publications with top publishers and in numerous leading international journals.
Leading publications include:
- Roadmap for Inclusive Green Finance Implementation – Building Blocks to Implement IGF Initiatives and Policies (2022)
- Zetzsche/Woxholth, EU Law and Regulation of Crypto-Assets (CUP, 2024) – forthcoming
- Buckley/Arner/Zetzsche, FinTech: Finance, Technology, Regulation (CUP, 2023)
- Zetzsche (ed.), The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, 3rd. 2020
The Chairholder, Prof. Zetzsche, is engaged in an ongoing research cooperation with ARC Laureate Grantholder Prof. Ross P. Buckley (UNSW Sydney) and Prof. Douglas W. Arner, the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law and an RGC Senior Fellow, The University of Hong Kong. Together, the three researchers have provided some of the most highly cited research in the fields of FinTech and sustainable development regulation to date.
The ADA Chair’s main projects focus on financial inclusion, sustainable finance, collective investment schemes, and financial technologies.
In collaboration with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and the Chair in Sustainable Finance (Prof. Michael Halling), the ADA Chair investigates the impact of financial inclusion on financial stability.
The ADA Chairholder also serves as a co-Principal Investigator of the Luxembourg National Centre for Excellence in Research on Financial Technologies (FT NCER). Within the framework of FT NCER, the ADA Chair inquires into the potential of FinTech to streamline fund registration processes, the regulation of crypto-assets, the fairness and inclusiveness of online banking systems, the role of artificial intelligence in finance, as well as the interaction between law and technology concerning the robustness of financial institutions.
The ADA Chairholder serves as the co-coordinator of the FDEF’s House of Sustainable Governance & Markets. In this context, the research focuses on inclusive and sustainable finance regulation.