Ross Philip Buckley

My current research focus is the Future of Money, FinTech, and the Consumer Data Right. The Future of Money focus includes stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and tokenized bank deposits. My Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, 2020 - 2027, is a $3.7 million project that explores how Australia might best regulate the rise of FinTech. See the Laureate Project website for all of the Project's diverse research outputs. This research has been impactful. My research is currently the seventh most frequently downloaded legal research of all time from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), with over 270,000 downloads. I am the only non-American among the top 10 most downloaded researchers of all time on SSRN, and am the most cited Australian legal scholar on Google Scholar with over 15,000 citations to my work as at year-end 2025. In the past decade, with my two colleagues, Prof Douglas Arner of Cambridge and Hong Kong, and Dirk Zetzsche of Luxembourg, we have worked directly with governments and regulators in 62 nations, and with a further 40 international and regional organisations. Lists of the nations and organisations and subject matter of what we've done can be found at the Laureate Project website. Previously, I led two major sequential projects on the delivery of financial services over mobile devices in developing countries. I led a team of three to four researchers on these projects, funded by a large ARC Linkage grant in conjunction with, and generously supported by, the United Nations Capital Development Fund. I joined the Faculty in January 2007, and was appointed a Scientia Professor, and to the King & Wood Mallesons Chair in International Finance Law, in 2013. This research sponsorship was expanded with KPMG Law, from 2018 until 2023. I began my career practising banking and finance law in Australia and Hong Kong, and on Wall Street with Davis Polk, in total for some nine years. Areas of expertise: FinTech, RegTech, cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies, digital assets generally, consumer data right, and digital financial services. Professional Memberships and Affiliations: Member, Payments System Board, Reserve Bank of Australia. Chair, Digital Finance Advisory Panel, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). Member, Consultative Panel, ASIC. Member, Public Private Markets Advisory Group, ASIC. Member, Simplification Consultative Group, ASIC. Founding Series Editor, Global Trade Law Series, Kluwer Law International, The Hague. Series Co-editor, Kluwer's International Banking and Finance Law Series. Research Supervision: If you are interested in working with me, you should be fascinated by the future of money. I may have openings for two doctoral candidates with outstanding academic results in law to work in this field, starting mid-2026 and early 2027, supported by scholarships under the Laureate Project. I have previously supervised 13 doctoral candidates to successful completion. Post-doctoral Fellowship Opportunities: There are no current post-doctoral research fellow opportunities on the Laureate Project. All openings are filled. Fellows who were on this or my earlier major research projects now serve as a Professor at Durham, Associate Professors at UNSW (2) and Monash, and on the faculties of Boston University, Leiden University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. FinTech, RegTech, Cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, Consumer Data Right, money

N Jevglevskaja & RP Buckley, “A World-Leading Sanitation System for our Digital Economy: The Consumer Data Right”, forthcoming Australian Business Law Review, accepted June 19, 2023. DA Zetzsche, DW ArArner & RP Buckley, “Sustainability, Financial Inclusion and Efficiency: A Trilemma or a Trifecta for the Regulation of Finance”, forthcoming (2023) Vol 39:3 Banking and Finance Law Review, lead article, Special FinTech Issue.