Biography
Siju has considerable global experience and a robust understanding of the complex legal, regulatory and policy landscape surrounding financial and digital technologies and its integration into traditional financial and socioeconomic systems.

His publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals including Banking and Financial Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Cambridge Law Review and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, explore contemporary issues at the intersection of corporate and financial law and digital transformations, including digital assets, decentralised finance (DeFi), fintech and embedded finance, digital platforms economics, financial inclusion and SDGs, sustainability, algorithmic bias, and emerging data protection and data security issues in global digital policy.

He has also gained practical interdisciplinary experience through engagements with multistakeholder groups, law faculties and international organisations such as the United Nations ESCAP and the Bank for International Settlements, where participated in trailblazing projects on corporate and financial law, disruptive technologies in finance and digital law and policy.

Publications 

Book Chapter

• S. Animashaun, Impact of Ownership Patterns on Outer Space Regulations, Centre for Aerospace and Defense Laws, NALSAR University of Law (2022), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4136170

Articles

• D. Arner, T. Ratna, S. Animashaun & J. Bedi, ‘Centralization in Decentralized Finance: Systemic Risk in the Crypto Ecosystem and Crypto's Future as a Regulated Industry, 87 Law and Contemporary Problems 185-210 (2025) https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol87/iss2/8
• D. Arner, S. Animashaun, K. Charamba, Y.Cai, ‘Building Digital Payment Ecosystems: Digital Financial Infrastructure, Financial Inclusion, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (2025) California Western International Law Journal: Vol. 55: No. 1, Article 2. < https://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/cwilj/vol55/iss1/2/>
• S. Animashaun, ‘Platformisation of Finance: DeFi’s Gradual Disintermediation Effect and the Leveraging of CBDCs in Smart Supervision’ (2025) 9 City University of Hong Kong Law Review (accepted, forthcoming), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4135621
• S. Animashaun & D. Arner, ‘Tokenization and the Integration of TradeFi and Digital Assets: Balancing Financial Stability, Innovation and Sustainable Development’ (December 2024) 41(1) Banking and Financial Law Review, https://bflr.ca/latest-issue/
• S. Animashaun, ‘Great Crypto Crisis: The Prudential Regulation of Systemically Important Crypto Conglomerates’ [March 2024] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies,1-31, https://law.nus.edu.sg/sjls/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/05/firstview-march24-Sijuade.pdf
• S. Animashaun, ‘Data Governance in China’s Digital Market Economy’ (2024) 54(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 255-286, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4836491
• D. Arner, S. Animashaun, K. Charamba, Y. Cai, ‘Building Digital Payments Ecosystems: Digital Financial Infrastructure, Access to Finance, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (2023), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4565601
• D. Arner, S. Animashaun, K. Charamba, Y. Cai, ‘Building Digital Payments Ecosystems: Digital Financial Infrastructure, Access to Finance, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (2023), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4565601
• D. Arner, T. Ratna, S. Animashaun & J. Bedi, ‘Interdependencies in Crypto Ecosystems: Drivers, Implications and Policy Responses’ (2023), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4361739
• D. Arner, S. Animashaun, K. Charamba, Y. Cai, ‘MSME Access to Finance: The Role of Digital Payments’ (June 2022) United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, MSME Financing Series No. 7, https://repository.unescap.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12870/4557/ESCAP-2022-RP-MSME-Access-Finance-Role-Digital-Payments.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• S. Animashaun, ‘Digital Platforms and Sustainable Developments: Regulating BigFinTechs for Digital Financial Inclusion’ (2022), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4135615
• S. Animashaun, The Shadow Costs of Financial Inclusion in Data-Driven Economies, (2022), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4135657
• S. Animashaun, ‘Regulating Virtual Currency Payment Systems’ (2019) Vol IV (ii) Cambridge Law Review, 29-67, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3835762

Selected Funded Research Projects and Acknowledgements

  Corporate and Finance Law

• R.Buckley, D.Arner, D.Zetzsche, FinTech: Finance, Technology, Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2024), https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/fintech/acknowledgements/2DA88D66492956E9CA17676DD7717A20.
• Giuliano G. Castellano and Marek Dubovec, ‘Unidroit Access to Credit Instruments’ (2024) Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT, 249-261, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4937988
• David Leung, Bénédicte Nolens, Douglas Arner and Jon Frost, ‘Corporate digital identity: no silver bullet, but a silver lining’ (2022) Bank for International Settlements Papers No 126, available at < https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap126.pdf>

  
  Corporate Governance, Shareholder/Stakeholder Engagement and ESG-integration

• Ida Levine, ‘The role of the investor in Climate Change and Sustainable Finance’ Chapter 5, Rene Smits (Ed.) Sustainable Finance and Climate Change (Elgar Publishing, 2024), https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800377288/book-part-9781800377288-14.xml
• MacNeil, I.andEsser, I.-M.(2022)The emergence of ‘comply or explain’ as a global model for corporate governance codes.European Business Law Review, 33(1), pp. 1-56.
• Esser, I.-M.,MacNeil, I.andChalaczkiewicz-Ladna, K.(2020)Engaging stakeholders in corporate decision-making through strategic reporting: an empirical study of FTSE 100 companies (Part 2).European Business Law Review, 31(2), pp. 209-242.
• Esser, I.-M.andLoughrey, J.(2020)Stock corporations: corporate governance and external and internal controls.In:Vicari, A.andSchall, A.(eds.)Company Laws of the EU: A Handbook.Hart Publishing, pp. 1495-1539. ISBN 9781509923991
• Betty (H.T.) Wu, Iain MacNeil & Katarzyna Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna (2020) ‘Say on pay’ regulations and director remuneration: evidence from the UK in the past two decades, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 20:2, 541-577, DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2020.1754151
• Chalaczkiewicz- Ladna, Katarzyna and Esser, Irene-Marie and MacNeil, Iain, Workforce Engagement and the UK Corporate Governance Code (April 26, 2021). Forthcoming in ‘Corporate Governance, Sustainability and Reputation’, II International Conference of Corporate Governance proceedings to be published by Thomson Reuters Aranzadi., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3834387
• Chalaczkiewicz- Ladna, Katarzyna and Esser, Irene-Marie and MacNeil, Iain, Workforce Engagement and the UK Corporate Governance Code 2.0 (Forthcoming 2023).