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A mobile phone sat on a table with an article from CNN about Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong Media Plurality Assessment as a Public Interest Concern in UK Merger Control
8 November 2023

A new paper from Professor Ioannis Kokkoris investigates how the media plurality test is used to ensure a diverse range of opinions, views, and information from a variety of sources in news and media.

Coins stacked up in columns Preventing Debt Crises
15 December 2022

The financial response to the Covid-19 crisis has driven debt building at an unprecedented speed, which has increased the risk of debt distress and the odds of a new debt crisis cycle. Emerging markets and developing economies are most at risk.

Ghana flag Analysis: Ghana overhaul a test for $1 billion World Bank-backed debt
6 December 2022

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal spoke to Reuters and CNBC Africa about the Ghana overhaul. 

Ioannis Kokkoris wearing a suit and blue tie, standing in front of the ocean The Centre for Commerical Law Studies appoints new Director from September 2022, Professor Ioannis Kokkoris
8 September 2022

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris succeeds Professor Ian Walden, who has been at the helm of The Centre for Commercial Law Studies for the last four years, steering the centre through the difficulty of a pandemic adapting to a new online teaching mode to our widespread international cohort and being a key part of celebrating our forty-year anniversary.

Ukrainian flag Ukraine faces key test on debt freeze plan in bid to avoid messy default
11 August 2022

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal was featured in the Daily Mail discussing Ukraine's debt.

Aerial view of St Petersberg Russian debt default: experts explain what it means for Russia and for global financial markets
4 July 2022

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal writes for the Conversation Russia’s recent default on its foreign debt.

The Red Square in Moscow with tourists walking around Russia slides towards default as payment deadline expires
27 June 2022

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal was featured in the media discusses Russia getting closer to default.

A phone screen displaying various social media icons New laws to curb power of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook
28 March 2022

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris was featured in the Times discussing what this means for Big Tech.

Ioannis Kokkoris wearing a suit and pink tie Professor Ioannis Kokkoris edits Research Handbooks
21 March 2022

Professor Kokkoris is General Editor of a Research Handbook on Competition Enforcement that will be published later this year by Edward Elgar.

Phone screen with various social media apps Big Tech Acquisitions Won’t Stop, but It Won’t Be Business as Usual
4 February 2022

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris was interviewed by PYMNTS.com on the regulation of Big Tech.

A medical tester wearing PPE pouring liquid between test tubes Illumina Faces Battle to Save Grail Deal From EU Veto
27 January 2022

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris comments on the deal for Bloomberg.

An iPhone screen with apps, including Spotify, laying on a white table Professor Ioannis Kokkoris discusses the EU Apple Antitrust Case
5 May 2021

Professor Kokkoris was interviewed for CGTN Europe

Image of a globe with Africa in daylight and Asia in night on a black background New Queen Mary project to produce guide for responsible Sovereign Debt Borrowing
10 December 2020

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and the Global Policy Institute have been awarded £40,000 under the Research England Quality-related Research Strategic Priorities Fund.

Buenos Aires street lined with cars and obelisk in the background Argentina: restructuring in the time of Covid-19
16 June 2020

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal was featured in the Financial Times speaking on sovereign debt

A bustling street in Ghana with people, market stalls and busy road Moratorium on debt for Africa? Be careful of unintended consequences
11 May 2020

In a piece for The Conversation, Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal argues that a blanket moratorium on debt for Africa risks costing African countries much of the hard won gains many have achieved over the past 15 years

Image of spiky green virus particles on a black background Creditors must unite to find economic solutions
29 April 2020

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal was interviewed by Bloomberg Radio’s Daybreak Europe programme about debt relief for developing countries during coronavirus

Image of a globe with Africa in daylight and Asia in night on a black background Lenders and Investors need to be part of the solution
29 April 2020

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal co-signs an open letter to to the IMF and the World Bank urging for sovereign debt relief to help countries during the Covid-19 crisis

Capitol Building, Havana Cuba’s doctors are in high demand
8 April 2020

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal talks to The Economist about Cuba exporting doctors to pay sovereign debt

Google Heads to EU Court in Episode 1 of $9 Billion Trilogy
11 February 2020

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris comments on Google’s decade-long antitrust fight with the European Union for Bloomberg

Runner's hand leaning on a metal railing wearing a lime green smartwatch Google’s Fitbit Deal Tests Merger Cops Eyeing Data Giants
11 February 2020

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris comments on Google’s plan to buy Fitbit Inc. in an article for Bloomberg.

Professor Eduardo Stordeur (UTDT) and Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal (Queen Mary) at UTDT in Buenos Aires Partnership between Queen Mary and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella continues into 2020
7 January 2020

The Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance (IGLEF) at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) in Argentina, continue to strengthen their partnership aimed at advancing research and promoting robust academic practices in postgraduate education.

Puzzle piece being inserted into it's corresponding spot Call for papers - SPACs at the crossroads: confronting Law and Economics
7 January 2020

The Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and the Insitute of Global Law, Economics and Finance are requesting a Call for Papers for the first SPAC Conference ever to be held in Europe.

IGLEF training judges with the World Bank
20 December 2018

The Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance has recently teamed up with the World Bank Group to deliver a training course for judges specializing on insolvency law

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