Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. in Law, University of Zurich (candidate)
• J.S.M., Stanford University
• Bachelor of Laws, Pontifical Javeriana University

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, January 2022- Present
• Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, Jul 2025-Present 

Previous Appointment:

• Visiting Scholar, Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics, University of Chicago, September 2025
• Academic Visitor, University of Cambridge, Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, June 2023 – July 2023
• Head, Industry Relations, SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance / Centre for Digital Law, 2022-2025
• Research Associate, SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance, 2019-2021
• Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, 2020-2021
• Legal Advisor for digital transformation, innovation and policy affairs, Bancolombia, 2017-2021
• Lecturer in Financial Regulation, University of Los Andes, 2017-2021
• Research Associate, Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, 2015-2017
• Lecturer in Banking Law and Financial Regulation, Pontifical Javeriana University, 2012–2021
• Foreign Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP – New York Office, 2016-2017
• Senior Advisor, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE), 2017
• Manager of Regulation and Policy Affairs, Bancolombia, 2011-2015
• Senior Lawyer - Treasury and Derivatives, Bancolombia, 2010-2011
• Associate, DLA Piper, 2010
• Lawyer of Legal and Enforcement, Self-Regulatory Organization of the Securities Markets, 2008-2009

Other Positions

• Research collaborator, Center for Innovative Enterprise Law (CIEL), National Taiwan University. 2025 – present
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Risk, Law and Policy (Brill | Nijhoff), Member of the Editorial Board, 2024 – present
• Module Lead and Instructor of the Course on Open Finance for Financial Regulators, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge, 2023 – present
• Swiss Fintech Innovation Lab, Member, 2021 – present.
• Data and Policy Journal (Cambridge University Press), Member of the Editorial Board Area 4 (Focus on Ethics, Equity and Trust in Policy Data Interactions), 2022 – present.
• Asian Law Schools Association, member of the young scholars and law and technology chapters, 2022 - present.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society at GLA University (India), 2021 – present.
• European Corporate Governance Institute, Academic Member, 2021 – present.
• Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Group of Experts in Capital Markets and Financial Regulation, 2016 – present.
• American Law and Economics Association, member, 2015 – present.

Honours & Awards

• Yong Pung How School of Law Fellowship 2025. Project: Embedded Finance and the Rise of Super Apps in Asia
• Best Class Paper ‘Bitcoin. Regulatory flaws. An analysis based on Mt. Gox case,’ Stanford Policy and Economics class ‘The Future of Law and Finance,’ Stanford University, 2016
• Scholarship awardee, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS) Fellow, 2015
• Scholarship Awardee, Foundation for the Future of Colombia – Colfuturo, 2015
• Best Paper, Architects of the Colombian Securities Market National Contest, Colombian Stock Exchange. Paper: Alternative Investment Market: assessment and proposals for its deepening from the perspective of small and medium enterprises, 2011
• Member of the honour roll of best GPA, Pontifical Javeriana University

Courses Taught in SMU

• Financial and Securities Regulation
• Fintech Law
• Financial Regulation in Singapore, Hong Kong and Greater China

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Banking Law
• Capital Markets and Financial Regulation
• Fintech
• Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance
• Sustainable Finance
• Comparative Law
• Corporate Law and Finance

Selected Publications

• Nydia Remolina, ‘From Open Banking to Banking-as-a-Service: Regulatory Challenges in the Evolution of Financial Intermediation’, Law, Innovation and Technology, Vol 18.2 (Forthcoming 2026).
• Nydia Remolina (Guest Editor), Banking & Finance Law Review, Issue 42.1., 7th Annual Fintech Issue (2025).
• Nydia Remolina, ‘Mapping GenAI Regulation in Finance and Bridging the Gaps’ (2025), Journal of Financial Transformation, Issue 60, pp. 104-111.
• Nydia Remolina, ‘AI Governance and Algorithmic Auditing in Financial Institutions: Lessons from Singapore’ (2025), Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 261-275.
• Nydia Remolina, AI in the Judiciary: The Singapore Case, in Stefan Samse and Archana Atmakuri (eds), Will AI Pass the Bar? Mapping the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary: Insights from Singapore, India, and Taiwan (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2025).
• Nydia Remolina (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), Financial Regulation, in Andrew Phang, Goh Yihan, and Simon Chesterman (eds), Law and Technology in Singapore (Academy Publishing, 2025).
• Nydia Remolina (with Evan C. Gibson and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez), FinTech Regulation in Hong Kong and Singapore, in George Walker (ed), Financial Technology and Digital Commercial Law (Oxford University Press, 2025)
• Nydia Remolina (with David Socol de la Osa), ‘Artificial Intelligence at the Bench: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Informing—or Misinforming—Judicial Decision-Making Through Generative AI’ (2024), Data and Policy, Vol 6, e59, pp. 1-30.
• Nydia Remolina, ‘Generative AI in Finance: Risks and Potential Solutions’ (2024), Law Ethics and Technology Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1. Special Issue: The Law and Ethics of Generative AI, pp. 1-18.
• Nydia Remolina (with David Hardoon and Yvonne Locke), ‘Regulatory Approaches to Consumer Protection in the Financial Sector and Beyond: Toward a Smart Disclosure Regime?’ (2024), International Journal of Consumer Law and Practice, Vol. 12, Article 2, pp. 1-29.
• Nydia Remolina, DeFi and the Metaverse: Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Decentralisation of Financial Services, in Hung-Yi Chen, Pawee Jenweeranon and Nafis Alam (eds), Global Perspectives in the Metaverse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) pp. 223-251.
• Nydia Remolina (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez) (eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Regulatory Developments (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
• Nydia Remolina, ‘Open Finance: Regulatory Challenges of the Evolution of Data Sharing Arrangements in the Financial Sector’ (2023), Banking & Finance Law Review, Vol 40, Issue 1, Special Issue on Fintech, pp. 35-66.
• Nydia Remolina, Towards a Data-Driven Financial System: The Impact of COVID-19, in Asian Development Bank Institute (ed), Fintech and COVID-19 (ADBI, 2022) pp. 202 – 221.
• Nydia Remolina (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), ‘The Dark Side of the Implementation of Basel Capital Requirements: Theory, Evidence and Policy’ (2019) Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, Vol 22, Issue, 1, pp. 125-152.

For additional publications, please see SSRN.

Selected Blog Posts

• Nydia Remolina, 'The Regulatory Challenges Raised by the Evolution from Open Banking to Banking-as-a-Service' (2025), Columbia Law School's Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets.
• Nydia Remolina (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Daniel Liu), 'The Treatment of Digital Assets in Insolvency' (2025), Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable.
• Nydia Remolina, 'Regulating auditing algorithms: An Asian solution?' (2022). European Corporate Governance Institute Blog (Technology and Governance).
• Nydia Remolina (with A. Gurrea-Martínez), 'The Law and Finance of Initial Coin Offerings' (2018) in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.
• Nydia Remolina (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), 'The Dark Side of the Implementation of Basel Capital Requirements: Theory, Evidence and Policy' (2017), in Oxford Business Law Blog.