This book contains the proceedings of the conference 'The Changing Geography of Finance and Regulation in Europe', which was held at the EUI in Florence, Italy, on 27 April 2017.The Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies and the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London, in cooperation with BAFFI CAREFIN at Bocconi University, organised on 27 April 2017 a conference entitled 'The Changing Geography of Finance and Regulation in Europe'. The conference is a high-level debate convened yearly since 2011, gathering a limited group of leading economists, lawyers, political scientists and policy-makers to review selected contemporary challenges related to Europe’s economic and financial governance. This eBook summarizes the contributions of the speakers in the 2017 conference, which was conveyed with the aim to foster the discussion on how the regulatory framework should respond to the profound changes which are impacting the world’s financial architecture, including the advent of innovative technologies, collectively known as FinTech, the issues related to regulatory arbitrage and the impact of Brexit on the European landscape.-- Part 1: The new world of FinTech 
-- Explaining the infrastructure underpinning securities markets : market failure and the role of technology, Eva Micheler 
-- An introduction to FinTech, Andrei Kirilenko 
-- Debt as money: implications for financial stability, Jean-Pierre Landau 
-- Part 2: Regulatory arbitrage across jurisdictions 
-- English law and jurisdiction post Brexit, Yannis Manuelides 
-- Regulatory arbitrage : some thoughts, Lachlan Burn 
-- After Brexit : rebooting Euro area financial integration, Jeromin Zettelmeyer 
-- Part 3: A case study : Brexit 
-- Brexit, Financial markets and the wider economy, David Miles 
-- Changing geography of finance and regulation in Europe : Brexit case study, Jonathan Faull 
-- Brexit: a tale of exit over voice, Brigid Laffan 
-- Connecting and disconnecting critical financial market infrastructures : oversight and regulation of CCPs after Brexit, Agnieszka Smoleńska 
-- Lessons from the past for the future, Martin Sandbu 
-– Still looking for the banking Union’s fiscal backstop, Pierre Schlosse