Institutional Arrangements for Fintech Regulation: Supervisory Monitoring

June 26, 2023

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Parma Bains, and Caroline Wu. Institutional Arrangements for Fintech Regulation: Supervisory Monitoring, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

The impact of fintech is growing rapidly worldwide, although this growth is uneven across jurisdictions. Depending on the effect of fintech, authorities may adopt a passive approach of monitoring fintech, try and capture new business models in existing regulatory frameworks, develop bespoke regulation, or adopt test and learn policies through institutional arrangements like innovation hubs and sandboxes. The test and learn approach is relatively unique to fintech in financial regulation and supervision and has advantages and disadvantages. While it can help authorities monitor and respond to the challenges of fintech in some scenarios, in others it could lead to risks to consumers and markets, particularly when designed poorly or with an unclear use case. Ultimately, the aim for authorities should be to consider fintech regulation part of the mainstream, where fintech expertise is embedded throughout an organization and not siloed to specific fintech units.

Subject: Economic sectors, Emerging technologies, Financial crises, Financial services, Fintech, Technological innovation, Technology

Keywords: Cross-border sandbox, Emerging technologies, Fintech, Global, IMF Library, Innovation, Innovationhub, Policy sandbox, Publication order, Regulation, Sandbox, Sector sandbox, Supervision, Technological innovation, Technology sprint, Techsprint, UK Financial Conduct Authority

Publication Details

Pages:

58
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Series:

Fintech Notes No 2023/004
Stock No:

FTNEA2023004
ISBN:

9798400245664
ISSN:

2664-5912

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