Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices

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Marlene Amstad

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Harvard Kennedy School

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Date Written: October 8, 2019

Abstract

We provide an overview and key elements on the ongoing debate of whether and how to regulate fintech. We review three objectives of financial regulation (investor protection, market integrity, safeguarding financial stability) in the context of recent fintech developments, cover three guiding principles many regulators follow (legal certainty, technology neutrality, and proportionality), and end with a suggested synopsis of current fintech regulatory practices: “wait-and-see”, “same risk, same rules” (“duck typing”), or “new functionality, new rules” (“coding”).

Keywords: fintech, financial technology, digital currency

JEL Classification: G15, F65, O16

Suggested Citation

Amstad, Marlene and Amstad, Marlene, Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices (October 8, 2019). Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper Series 1016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3541003 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3541003

Marlene Amstad (Contact Author)

Harvard Kennedy School ( email )

79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen ( email )

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