Nguyen Hai Yen is a lecturer at the Department of Financial and Banking Law, Faculty of Economic Law, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam. She holds an LLD and an LLM from the Graduate School of Law in Kyushu University, Japan, as well as an LLM and an LLB from Hanoi Law University. Her previous experience includes working as a legal consultant for law firms. Her research has focused on financial law, banking law, securities law, with a particular emphasis on fintech law. Her current publications include Fintech in Vietnam and its regulatory approach, in Fenwick, Uytsel and Ying eds. Regulating fintech in Asia: global context, local perspectives (Springer, 2020); Addressing AML challenges in Vietnam’s fintech and defi ecosystem: bridging regulatory gaps for financial stability. International Journal of Law 11(3) 2025, pp. 1-6.