Breakthroughs in computing hardware, software, telecommunications, and data analytics have transformed the financial industry, enabling a host of new products and services such as automated trading algorithms, crypto-currencies, mobile banking, crowdfunding, and robo-advisors. However, the...

This master thesis examines the conceptual and technical specifications of Facebook's Libra project, which provides a comprehensive understanding of the fiat-backed digital currency, the payment system and financial infrastructures for billions of people to be launched in the first half of 2020....

This Article examines how and why regulating FinTech is different. This question relates to the ongoing debate of whether FinTech is simply “more of the same”—primarily exacerbating existing failures and challenges and hence not requiring new regulations—or a radical transformation that...

The first global cryptocurrency benchmarking study presents a systematic and comprehensive picture of a rapidly evolving industry, illustrating how cryptocurrencies are being used, stored, transacted and mined. The study gathered non-public data from more than 100 cryptocurrency companies and...

The first global blockchain benchmarking study presents a systematic and comprehensive picture of a rapidly evolving industry, examining how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are being used in the public sector and enterprise. The study analysed non-publicly available data...

We model a dynamic economy with strategic complementarity among investors andstudy how endogenous government interventions mitigate coordination failures. We establishequilibrium existence and uniqueness, and we show that one intervention can affectanother through altering the public information...

This interdisciplinary paper by a mathematician and a legal counsel, both from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, discusses the potential impacts of the so-called “initial coin offerings”, and of several developments based on distributed ledger technology (“DLT”), on corporate...

This paper examines the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy (RE) diffusion through corresponding investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors (i.e. investment/pension funds, banks and insurance companies). Capacity investment data is gathered...

For years, the insurance industry was essentially about mathematical quantification and financial transformation of physical risks. But our world has become more interconnected with the advent of the internet, blockchain etc.: as a consequence, cyber risk is expanding rapidly. Here, Prof. W....

Digital finance has the potential to transform emerging market and advanced economies alike. India's approach rests on the principle of providing digital financial infrastructure as a public good. It offers an important case study where the results are relevant and applicable for all economies,...