Naturally, the issue of Executive Pay has been a consistent focus for Financial Regulation Matters , with a number of posts discussing the elements that make up such a complex issue. News recently from the automotive/technology industries concerning Elon Musk has brought the issue to the fore once more, and in this post the focus will be on the record-setting pay-deal that was recently announced by Tesla, and then what may be the effects of this for the wider issue of executive pay across the financial sectors. Yesterday, the headlines where Musk was concerned were almost writing themselves, with The Guardian ’s ‘ Elon Musk wins approval for “staggering” pay deal with potential $55bn bonus ’ headline perhaps being representative of the response to the news from Tesla. However, the deal is a complex one with a number of conditions attached, which result in the reality of the situation being somewhat different. Essentially, Tesla has decided to grant its Billionaire founder a $2....

Today's post is a guest post by Jake Richardson, an LL.B. student from Aston University's Law School. On many occasions here in Financial Regulation Matters  we have discussed the increase in certain technological fields and the impact that it may have upon wider society. In today's post, Jake discusses the relatively recent rise in the testing and implementation of autonomous vehicles and examines the potential impact that this may have - in relating the increase to social considerations like safety and costs, the post makes a very good point that a societal shift may need to take place for such technological advances to really take hold. The Boom of Autonomous Transportation The idea of autonomous transportation may not have yet hit the minds of many people in the United Kingdom, nor in fact the world. Yet, many manufactures have already teamed up, such as the likes of Bosch and Mercedes, with many more companies committing plans to mass produce driverless cars...