Introduction to International Financial Law concerns the commercial, property and insolvency law aspects of international financial transactions. It addresses questions such as ‘What are the legal elements of financial repos and financial collateral in general?’, ‘How do parties mitigate their financial risk?’, ‘How are complex cross-border transactions managed in legal terms?’, and, ‘How does the law deal with new ways of doing finance (FinTech)?’. 

In short, this course explains how financial institutions make money from entering financial transactions and subsequently dispersing financial risk on an international scale. The course is therefore different from, but complementary to, the course on International Financial Regulation (LL4BF), which rather concerns the limits to that activity set by the states for the common good.