Digital Finance, Financial Inclusion and Sustainability: Building Better Financial Systems

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Project Title
Digital Finance, Financial Inclusion and Sustainability: Building Better Financial Systems
Principal Investigator
Professor Arner, Douglas Wayne   (Principal Investigator (PI))
Co-Investigator(s)
Professor Buckley Ross P   (Co-Investigator)
Professor Zetzsche Dirk   (Co-Investigator)
Duration
60
Start Date
2021-01-01
Amount
7798380
Conference Title
Digital Finance, Financial Inclusion and Sustainability: Building Better Financial Systems
Keywords
Digital finance, Financial inclusion, FinTech, RegTech, Sustainable Development Goals
Discipline
Law
HKU Project Code
SRFS2021-7H01
Grant Type
RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme
Funding Year
2020
Status
On-going
Objectives
1. Establish and quantify the links between inclusive digital finance and financial technology (FinTech) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 2. Establish, using quantitative and qualitative methods, how the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI) FinTech for Financial Inclusion Strategy (FinTech4FI, which was developed by Arner and collaborators Buckley and Zetzsche) can increase FinTech’s positive impacts on the UN SDG measures. 3. Test and confirm these statistical estimates (both the effect of FinTech on the SDGs and the AFI FinTech4FI strategy) with fieldwork, surveys and other quantitative methods; 4. Use those verified empirical estimates to propose the highest ‘sustainable FinTech’ impact legislation and regulation to improve SDG scores, particularly in developing countries. 5. Use those estimates to propose investment-related indices which will encourage inclusive FinTech investment, and thus sustainable development.