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The Hamburg Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL) will host a conference on “AI, Finance & Law: Innovation, Integrity, and the Future of Markets” on 2–3 July 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, and invites paper submissions.

This in-person conference will seek to explore a broad range of regulatory issues in relation to, inter alia, the following aspects:

• How should financial markets law respond to the adoption of AI systems by financial institutions and intermediaries? What are the economic effects of AI-driven financial markets, and are there risks to market integrity, efficiency, and to market stability?
• What governance mechanisms ensure accountability, transparency, and auditability of AI in financial services? How can market supervisors and investors effectively monitor the integrity of new AI-driven market players?
• How does the EU AI Act interact with existing and upcoming financial regulatory frameworks? How does the AI Act and associated rules apply to financial-markets use-cases such as algorithmic trading, risk models, and credit scoring?
• How can regulators balance innovation, competition, and financial stability in regulating AI? What forms of legal experimentation (sandboxing, testbeds, proportionality tools) support safe AI adoption and ensure innovation? 
• What are cross-border challenges with regulating AI across the EU and globally? What can the EU learn from global regulatory models such as the US, UK, Singapore, China, and international standard setters?
• Twin Transformation: How can advances in AI be balanced with sustainable development and green finance?

The conference organizers invite papers from scholars, policymakers, and practitioners on each of these topics, and on any other topic of relevance to the conference theme. In particular, the organisers encourage the submission of papers that examine these topics from an interdisciplinary, international and/or comparative perspective.

Institutions

• Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL)