Designed as a Continuing Legal Education programme, the Certificate of Advanced Studies targets regulators and intermediaries as well as civil society organisations active in the field of inclusive finance, including, but not limited to: Policy makers, supervisory institutions and employees of financial intermediaries (i.e. development and central banks, private credit institutions, financial institutions, asset managers and advisers), non-governmental organisations in the field of inclusive finance.
They will be selected by the Course Director in cooperation with ADA. Applicants need to be able to demonstrate an interest in inclusive finance, for example through previous work experience or a Bachelor / Master’s thesis or other publication in the field.
Additional entry requirements include:
The ADA Chair in Financial Law (Inclusive Finance) at the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, together with Appui au Développement Autonome (ADA), a non-governmental organisation in inclusive finance, and the European Investment Bank Institute launched in 2017 the Certificate in Law and Regulation of Inclusive Finance
The European Investment Bank Institute is the philanthropic arm of the European Investment Bank Group with a specific outreach towards research and education. Entering its seventh year in 2023, the programme is aimed at regulators, intermediaries and other inclusive finance organisations.
The objective of the programme is to deepen the participants’ specific knowledge and skills in the field of inclusive finance law and regulation, with a focus on developing countries. In order to achieve this objective:
Moreover, participants will acquire intercultural competences, preparing them for work in international environments while also benefiting from a network of informal relations, useful for their future. It is also planned to facilitate networking among alumni through a semiformal alumni organisation, enabling participants to maintain these relations in the long-term.
Lectures include the following topics:
The programme aims at ensuring awareness of the topic of law and regulation in the inclusive finance sector, enabling an exchange with regulators and financial intermediaries, and facilitating further academic and non-academic cooperation.
So far close to 160 professionals over 40 countries have benefited from the programme.
Participants will attend between 6 and 8 TU per day, divided into traditional lectures and workshops / case studies on inclusive finance topics with various partners from Luxembourg and from all over the world.Workshops will be held from Monday to Friday in the first week and from Monday to Thursday in the second week.
The programme’s teaching staff brings together internal University of Luxembourg academics and external experts from other universities as well as practitioners, such as inclusive finance field workers, lawyers, accountants and representatives of inclusive financeinstitutions.
Beyond the core staff, other experienced faculty from the following institutions will teach classes: