FinTech offers a new way to mobilize resources for all kinds of uses – including for funding sustainable development. Roughly 3%-13% of funding required for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – or around $50 billion to $125 billion – could come from a ‘FinTech Dividend.' Such...

Regulators should not just leave FinTech rulemaking up to financial regulators. Contracting authorities should not just develop or use their own selected FinTech applications willy-nilly. They should contribute to overall changes in a procurement law -which extend far beyond simple supervisory...

What effect will new laws regulating financial technologies (FinTech) have on sustainable development -- and particular the sustainable development goal (SDG) scores in the developing world? In this paper, we provide the first rigorous analysis of the literature predicting how FinTech might...

New financial technologies (FinTech) may not represent a new era for sustainable development -- at least not as currently conceived. Many of the gains espoused by the UN and other cheerleaders come from rebranding the online equivalents of traditional savings, investment and tax payment...

FinTech -- along with the blockchain, other distributed ledger, smart contract, and tokenization usually assumed to accompany it -- could change the way governments procure goods and services. Procurement authorities and procurement law can play a vital role in the development of FinTech. They...