Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), HKU

Academic Advisory Board

Professor Ruth Plato-Shinar

Affiliation AIIFL Academic Advisory Board Member, AIIFL Honorary Fellow (2010–2014) and Professor of Banking Law & Financial Regulation and Director, Center for Banking Law and Financial Regulation, Netanya Academic College (Israel)

Journal Articles

  1. Automated Decision-Making in Financial Services: Regulatory Strategies and Global Challenges American Journal of Comparative Law 2026
  2. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Microfinance in the Global South: Regulatory Insights into AI-based Credit Underwriting 49 Fordham Internationl Law Journal 533 (2026) 2026
  3. Regulatory Cooperation in AI Sandboxes: Insights from Fintech 18 Law, Innovation and Technology 1 (2026) 2026
  4. Allocation of Liability Between Merchant and Acquirer in Cases of Fraudulent Payments 41 Banking & Finance Law Review (2025) 2025
  5. Enhancing AI in Finance through Regulatory Sandboxes 8 Law Society & Culture 289 (2025) 2025
  6. Public Attitudes Towards CBDC - The Role of Trust in the Central Bank 42 Banking & Finance Law Rev. 1 (2026) 2025
  7. Safeguarding Bank Customers in the Digital Age: Between Protection and Empowerment 31 Law & Business Rev. 237 (2025) 2025
  8. The Law for the Reduction of Cash Use in Israel: Marking Five Years in Force 10 Regulation Studies 245 (2025) 2025
  9. AI in Consumer Credit Underwriting: Opportunities, Challenges and Proposed Regulation 6 Regulation Studies 137 (2024) 2024
  10. Algorithmic Credit Underwriting in Israel: Is there a Risk of Discrimination? 45 Tel-Aviv L. Rev. 553 (2022) 2022
  11. Simplifying the Interaction between Banks and their Customers: Towards Modernization of the Banking Contract Language 56 Hebrew University L. Rev. 713 (2022) 2022
  12. The Right to Financial Privacy in an Era of Mandatory Duties of Disclosure 38 Banking & Finance Law Review 285 (2022) 2022
  13. Payment Services Law 2019: Consumer Protection in a Digital Payments World 27 Hamishpat 275 (2021) 2021
  14. Thinking Outside the Box: The New Regulatory Sandbox Regime in Israel 36 Banking & Finance Law Review 457 (2021) 2021
  15. Regulating Liability for Unauthorised Digital Payments: Insights for South Africa Annual Banking Law Update 1 (2020) 2020
  16. Regulatory Shaming: Can it Serve as an Enforcement Tool in Banking Supervision? 23 Law & Business 677 (2020) 2020
  17. The New Israeli Law on Payment Services: Towards a New Model of Digital Payments 35 Banking & Finance Law Rev. 351 (2020) 2020
  18. The Sale of Bank Loan Portfolios to Non-Bank Entities under the Bank's Fiduciary Duty Hebrew Uni. Law Rev. - Online Symposium on Assingment of Obligations 2020
  19. Financial Consumer Protection in the Post Financial Crisis Era: Can the American FCPB Serve as a Model for other… Read more 54 Texas Int. L. Rev. 171 (2019) 2019
  20. The Right to Financial Privacy - a Dissapearing Era 2 Law Society & Culture 199 (2019) 2019
  21. Book Review: Pirnciples of Banking Regulation by J. Armour et al 33 J. of Int. Banking Law and Regulation 108 (2018) 2018
  22. Misconduct Costs of Banks - The Meaning behind the Figures 32 Banking & Finance Law Review 495 (2017) 2017
  23. On Failure of Consideration and Holding in Due Course: An Opportunity to Correct Legal Anachronism 12 Netanya Academic Law Rev. 205 (2017) 2017
  24. Banking (Service to Customer) Law 1981: On the Absence of a Fiduciary Duty 5 Hukim Journal on Legislation 179 (2013) 2013
  25. The Banking Contract as a Special Contract: The Israeli Model 29 Touro Law Rev. 721 (2013) 2013
  26. The Bank's Duty of Disclosure - Towards a New Model 27 Banking & Finance Law Rev. 427 (2012) 2012
  27. The Bank's Fiduciary Duty under Israeli Law: Is there a Need to Transform it from an Equitable Principle into a Statutory Duty? 39 Commomn Law World Rev. 219 (2012) 2012
  28. The Task Force's Payments System Review Report: An Outsider's View 53 Canadian Business Law J. 215 (2012) 2012
  29. Code of Ethics: Does it Add Anything to Banking Regulation? 27 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 261 (2011) 2011
  30. Israel: The New Law on Class Actions The Journal of Business Law 527 (2007) 2007
  31. The Bank's Fiduciary Duty: An Israeli-Canadian Comparison 22 Banking & Finance Law Rev. 1 (2006) 2006

Books

  1. Festschrift in honor of Prof. Sinai Deutch Nevo 2025
  2. 以色列银行业监管--审慎监管与消费者保护 The Commercial Press - Kluwer Law International 2019
  3. Banking Regulation in Israel. Prudential Regulation versus Consumer Protection Wolters Kluwer 2016
  4. Fiduciary Duties in the Israeli Law Nevo 2016
  5. The Bank's Fiduciary Duty: The Duty of Loyalty Israel Bar 2010

Chapters in Books

  1. When Businesses Scam the Elderly: The Overlooked Responsibility of Payment Service Providers Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Sinai Deutch 2025
  2. Shaming by Bank Regulators: Methods and Applications 2023
  3. AI-based consumer credit underwriting: The role of a national credit database Artificial Intelligence in Finance Challenges Opportunities and Regulatory Developments 2023
  4. Banking regulation in Israel: Balancing systemic stability and consumer protection Regulation in Israel Values Effectiveness Methods 2020
  5. The role of political economy in designing banking regulation: The israeli bank fees reform as a test case Political Economy of Financial Regulation 2019
  6. Shuld the Bank Act the Guardian of the Customer? Thoughts about the Proper Boundaries ofr the Bank's Fiduciary Duty Fiduciary Duties in the Israeli Law (2016) 2016

Other Works

  1. Report on the Simplification of EU Financial Law European Banking Institute 2026
  2. Public Attitudes towards CBDC: Insights from a Survey Experiment Oxford Business Law Blog 2025
  3. The Willingness of the Israeli Public to Adopt a Central Bank Digital Currency Bank of Israel 2025
  4. The Willingness o fthe Israeli Public to Adopt Digital Shekel (in Hebrew) נכונות הציבור הישראלי לאמץ שקל דיגיטלי 2025
  5. The Willingness of the Public to Adopt a Digital Shekel 2025
  6. בחינה ביקורתית של החוק לצמצום השימוש במזומן בישראל במלאת 5 שנים להפעלתו The Law for the Reduction of Cash Use in Israel: Marking Five Years in… Read more 2025
  7. Protecting Bank Customers in an Era of Digitalization and Datafication The Vicky and Joseph Safra Research Institute for Banking and Financial Intermediation 2024
  8. Construction Loans in Israel: Bank's Liability Towards Third Parties 2016