Xenia Seabright is a doctoral researcher in international financial law at the University of Vienna, where her research examines the impact of margin requirements on the bilaterally cleared OTC derivatives market. Her work focuses on EU and cross-border financial regulation, global financial standard-setting and soft-law instruments (including the G20 and Basel), and the EU’s external economic relations. Alongside her academic work, she brings several years of practice experience in derivatives and financial regulation, including roles at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, with a focus on ISDA documentation, regulatory implementation (MiFID II/EMIR). She holds an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and a Magistra Iuris from the University of Vienna, and has been a visiting scholar at Radboud University researching European Financial Market Infrastructure. She publishes and speaks regularly on international economic and financial law.