Researcher

Dr Anton Didenko

Fields of Research (FoR)

Banking, finance and securities law

Biography

Anton is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney specialising in banking and finance law, with a focus on FinTech and open banking/open finance. He has over 10 years of experience as in-house counsel for major commercial banks in Moscow and as senior associate at a law firm in London.

Prior to joining UNSW Sydney, Anton worked as head of legal support of international operations in several commercial banks and as a Research Fellow at the British...view more

Anton is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney specialising in banking and finance law, with a focus on FinTech and open banking/open finance. He has over 10 years of experience as in-house counsel for major commercial banks in Moscow and as senior associate at a law firm in London.

Prior to joining UNSW Sydney, Anton worked as head of legal support of international operations in several commercial banks and as a Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. His experience covers advising on banking regulations and legislation applicable to financial intermediaries, as well as a wide range of financing transactions.

Anton also specialises in the area of secured transactions law and transnational commercial law: he is the author of a monograph on the documentary history of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Hart, 2021) and the general editor of the Cape Town Convention Journal.

Anton holds several law degrees from Russia and the UK, including an MJur and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

If you are reading this on the UNSW Law & Justice website, the information below may not be up-to-date. For the accurate record of publications and supervision details, please see https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-anton-didenko.


My Awards

  • Australian Academic of the Year in Digital Finance (2023) 

My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

I supervise HDR candidates interested in researching banking and financial regulation, including the legal aspects of FinTech and open banking/open finance. I also supervise HDR candidates interested in the area of security interests in movable property (particularly the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment).

I had the pleasure of supervising to successful completion the following doctoral theses:

  • 'Banking on Data: A Comparative Critique of Common-Law Open Banking Frameworks' by Dr Scott Farrell (PhD award date - 15 August 2022).

My Teaching

Law of Banking

International Financial Law

Banking and Finance Law

Law in the Global Context

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Location

Room 341

Contact

+61-2-9065 2795