Financial Influencers and Consumer Protection with Professor Felix Pflücke
Description
We have recently seen the rise of financial influencers, who may, for example, give investment advice on social media. However, as seen in the GameStop short squeeze or recent cryptocurrency fraud scheme scandals, financial influencers may come with issues such as conflict of interests. In this episode, Rach interviews Felix Pflücke. Felix Pflücke is a legal academic focusing on European Union law. He read law at the undergraduate level at the Universities of Maastricht and Glasgow and at the graduate and postgraduate levels at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has been a lecturer in law at Oxford since 2018, in Contract, Tort and EU Law. He is part of the INDIGO Project of the University of Luxembourg, which addresses the impact of digitalisation on the implementation of policies in Europe. His research combines a comparative and empirical approach to understand how online platforms function and how consumer redress can be improved, and leading outlets like the European Law Journal and Oxford University Press featured his research. He recently published a paper, ‘Regulating Finfluencers’ in the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, which critically analyses whether the current framework sufficiently protects consumers.
Autogenerated transcript available at: https://rss.com/podcasts/oulp/1325412/
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