Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices
17 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2020 Last revised: 13 Mar 2020
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Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices
Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices
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
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