Dr Lerong Lu | International Financial Law

King’s College London law colleagues welcome the senior delegation from East China University of Political Science and Law. On 20 May 2026, The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London welcomed a senior delegation from the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) for discussions on the continuing development of the partnership between the two institutions. The…

Dr Lerong Lu, Reader in Law at King’s College London, has contributed to the policy development of UK wholesale financial markets through a joint academic response to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England Call for Input, The Future of Tokenisation: A Joint Vision from the Authorities for UK Wholesale Financial Markets. Joint academic response to the FCA and Bank of England…

On 14 June 2026, Dr Lerong Lu, Reader in Law at King’s College London, appeared on an interview with LBC Radio with presenter Ali Miraj to discuss the latest development of cross-border digital payment systems. The interview followed a recent Financial Times report on mBridge, a central bank digital currency platform involving monetary authorities in Asia and the Middle East. The discussion…

Dr Lerong Lu, Reader in Law at King’s College London, provided expert commentary to The Banker, a Financial Times publication, for its report, “China’s AI Push Collides with Employment Priorities (24 June 2026)” The article examines a recent Chinese employment case concerning an employee whose work was said to have been replaced by artificial intelligence. It considers the wider implications of…

Freshfields’ London office at 100 Bishopsgate King’s College London and Freshfields jointly held a dissertation workshop on 18 June 2026 at Freshfields’ London office at 100 Bishopsgate. The workshop formed part of the collaboration between The Dickson Poon School of Law and Freshfields, a leading international law firm, on the LLM Law & Technology pathway. Through this partnership, selected…

Speakers and participants at The 1st UK–China Artificial Intelligence Law Dialogue 2026, King’s College London. The 1st UK–China Artificial Intelligence Law Dialogue 2026 was successfully held at King’s College London on 15 June 2026. The event brought together distinguished legal scholars from London, Beijing and the wider international academic community for a high-level academic exchange on…

King’s College London is pleased to host The 1st UK–China Artificial Intelligence Law Dialogue 2026 on 15 June 2026. Organised by The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Centre for Data Futures, this high-level dialogue will bring together leading scholars from the UK and China to discuss comparative perspectives on AI governance, data protection, and the legal infrastructure of the future digital…

King’s College London has announced that Dr Lerong Lu, Reader in Law and Director of Postgraduate Studies at The Dickson Poon School of Law, has been recognised as the 2025 faculty winner of the King’s Supervisory Excellence Award for the Dickson Poon School of Law. The award forms part of the university’s annual recognition of outstanding doctoral supervision and support across King’s. Winners…

A new article by Dr Lerong Lu (King’s College London) and Dr Ci Ren (University of Leeds), titled “Lender of Last Resort in China: Operating Mechanism, Legal Foundation, and the Financial Stability Implication,” has been published in Volume 34 of the Asia Pacific Law Review (2026). The article examines the legal and institutional foundations of China’s lender of last resort regime and evaluates…

book cover: Lerong Lu, Global Fintech Revolution, © Oxford University Press 2024 In this latest book, Lerong Lu examines the biggest change in modern financial industry – the Fintech (financial technology) revolution – that denotes the close interaction between the financial services industry and latest information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial…

The Banking Law Journal (2024) by LexisNexis Dr Lu has recently published a three-part paper entitled “Fintech Corporations: Defining the Practice and Regulation of Innovative Financial Enterprises” in Vol. 141 of the Banking Law Journal or BLJ (2024) over three consecutive issues. The BLJ is a leading US-based journal in the fields of banking and finance law. This paper establishes the study of…

Lu, L., ‘Maintaining Financial Market Stability during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulatory Responses and Crisis Management Measures’ (2021) 36 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 515-523 (with Cappuzzello, S.).

The US Securities and Exchange Commission Lu, L., ‘Maintaining Financial Market Stability during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulatory Responses and Crisis Management Measures’ (2021) 36 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 515-523 (with Cappuzzello, S.). This article provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of regulatory…

Lu, L., , ‘Chinese Takeover Law: Revisiting the Director’s Duty of Care under Takeover Defence and the Business Judgment Rule’ (2021) 32 International Company and Commercial Law Review 603-625 (with Ren, C.).

Lu, L., , ‘Chinese Takeover Law: Revisiting the Director’s Duty of Care under Takeover Defence and the Business Judgment Rule’ (2021) 32 International Company and Commercial Law Review 603-625 (with Ren, C.). This article discusses and analyses the Chinese takeover law with a focus on the director’s duty of care under takeover defence. Directors of the target company are asked to act prudently…

Lu, L., ‘Digital Yuan: The Practice and Regulation of China’s Central Bank Digital Currency’ (2021) 36 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 601 (with Chen, H.).

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been working on the digital form of its sovereign currency since 2014. Digital yuan, also known as the e-CNY, has been designed to replace the cash and coins already in circulation. Lu, L., ‘Digital Yuan: The Practice and Regulation of China’s Central Bank Digital Currency’ (2021) 36 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 601 (with…

Lu, L., ‘Do investors vote with their feet? Commenting on Deliveroo’s IPO on London Stock Exchange and the dual-class share structure’ (2021) 42 Company Lawyer 332 (with Yang, S.).

Deliveroo is an online food delivery company founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in 2013 in London. Lu, L., ‘Do investors vote with their feet? Commenting on Deliveroo’s IPO on London Stock Exchange and the dual-class share structure’ (2021) 42 Company Lawyer 332 (with Yang, S.). Abstract: This article discusses what accounts for the increasing popularity of the dual-class share structure…

Lu, L., ‘Regulating fintech corporations amidst Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of Ant Group (Alipay)’s suspension of IPO and business restructuring’ (2021) 42 Company Lawyer 341 (with Zhang, L.).

Ant Group is the largest fintech company in the world which operates the Alipay mobile payment network. Lu, L., ‘Regulating fintech corporations amidst Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of Ant Group (Alipay)’s suspension of IPO and business restructuring’ (2021) 42 Company Lawyer 341 (with Zhang, L.).

Lu, L., ‘PRC Securities Law 2020: Promoting More Efficient and Transparent Capital Markets in China’ (2021) 36 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 237-239, ISSN: 0269-2694.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Lu, L., ‘PRC Securities Law 2020: Promoting More Efficient and Transparent Capital Markets in China’ (2021) 36 Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 237-239, ISSN: 0269-2694. Abstract: On 28 December 2019, the revised People’s Republic of China (PRC) Securities Law was passed by the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress. The Law came…