Are Regtech, Fintech, Blockchain the Future?

Innovation in Payments: The Future is Fintech

Blockchain Revolution without the Blockchain

The technology behind blockchain has attracted a lot of attention. However, this technology is for the most part not well understood. There is no consensus on what benefits it may bring or on how it may fail. A careful look into the technology finds that most of the proposed benefits of so called blockchain technologies do not really come from elements unique to blockchain. Instead, they come f...

Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era∗

Loan officers may discriminate based on facial features. Algorithmic scoring may imply disparate impact due to the inappropriate use of big data by FinTech lenders. To investigate these discrimination channels, we estimate a treatment-based OaxacaBlinder decomposition based on the unique mortgage-default-risk setting of the GSEs. We find that lenders reject African-American and Hispanic applica...

FinTech and cloud in banking

The use of technologies in financial services is not new. Financial institutions have, for a long time, been implementing technological solutions to support the provision of services to their customers and to ensure compliance with their regulatory obligations. They have also long relied on outsourcing arrangements with external service providers for the provision of technological solutions. Ho...

Blockchain

Blockchain technology and distributed ledgers are attracting massive attention and trigger multiple projects in different industries. However, the financial industry is seen as a primary user of the blockchain concept. This is not only due to the fact that the most well-known application of this technology is the crypto-currency Bitcoin, but it is also driven by substantial process inefficienci...