On October 4, 2025, CIEL Deputy Director Professor Yueh-Ping Yang was invited to participate in the “Global Legal Responses to Digital Assets” forum held in Beijing, jointly organized by the Renmin University of China Law School and the UNIDROIT Asian Transnational Law Centre (ATLC), and presented a speech at the Session on “Co-evolution of Digital Asset Private Law and Regulatory Law.”
The session featured international experts and scholars in digital asset laws, including Professor Teresa Rodriguez De Las Heras Ballell (President of European Law Institute) as the keynote speeker, Professor Tetsuo Morishita (former Vice President of Sophia University, Japan), Professor Pauline Pailler (Université Paris Cité), etc. They collectively explored the private laws and regulatory regimes for digital asset.
During the forum, Professor Yang shared his insights on the regulation of crypto-asset lending activities. He commenced the speech by the recent controversies surrounding stablecoin lending activities, analyzing the business model, inherent risk, and comparative regilation regarding crypto-asset lending businesses and comparing them with shadow banks. Deputy Director Yang also highlighted serveral potential regulatory tools, such as consumer protection and disclosure, internal control and financial management, prudential regulation and financial requirement, liquidation designs, and entity shielding requirements, in order to respond to the constantly evolving crypto-financial ecosystem.
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