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Part of Banking & Financial Services Law

FinTech & Digital Assets

Payments technology, digital assets and new financial products.

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What this area covers

FinTech lawyers work out how long-standing financial rules apply to new products such as payment apps, online lending and digital assets, often before regulators have settled the answer.

Also called: Blockchain Law, Cryptocurrency Law, Digital Assets, FinTech.

Typical legal work

  • Analysing licensing requirements for new products
  • Advising on anti-money-laundering obligations
  • Counselling on the treatment of digital assets

Where lawyers work

  • Law firms of every size
  • In-house legal departments
  • Financial regulators

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in FinTech & Digital Assets. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

No verified programs yet

No school program has been verified under this area so far. That reflects what has been reviewed, not what schools offer. How programs are verified

Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.
  2. 2.American Bar Association. Science & Technology Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.

FinTech & Digital Assets — areas of law · PreLaw Advisor