Researcher

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 published widely on the legal aspects of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and other digital assets, regulatory sandboxes, decentralised finance and open banking/open finance/open data. He is the author of Banking Law in Australia (11th edn, LexisNexis, 2024) and lead author of Customer Data...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 published widely on the legal aspects of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and other digital assets, regulatory sandboxes, decentralised finance and open banking/open finance/open data. He is the author of Banking Law in Australia (11th edn, LexisNexis, 2024) and lead author of Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the World (Routledge, 2024).

Prior to joining UNSW Sydney, Anton worked as a senior banking lawyer in various roles, including as head of legal support of international operations in major commercial banks and senior associate at a law firm in London. He is regularly engaged as an expert in financial regulation by international organisations and policymakers including the Group of 20 (G20), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).

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


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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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