Ligia Catherine Arias-Barrera

Catherine specializes in financial derivatives and regulatory reforms in the UK and the US. She is a consultant on Central Clearing Services (Nigeria-UK post Brexit Regulation), and a registered independent expert at the IMF. Catherine has been a lecturer at Externado de Colombia University and the University of Warwick (UK). Catherine's publications include: Author: “Regulation and Supervision of the OTC Derivatives Market” published by Routledge(2018), and named one of the best Banking Law books of all time by BookAuthority Co-author of The AI Book published Wiley (2020) Research articles on financial regulation and the adoption of tech in financial services: Discussions on Algorithmic Credit Scoring: Challenges from Financial Regulation, Legal Challenges Associated With the Adoption of Smart Contracts in Financial Derivatives, Smart Contracts and Really Responsive Regulation Catherine has an LLB and Postgraduate Degree (Externado de Colombia University), LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law (Queen Mary, University of London) and Ph.D. in Law (U. of Warwick).