Finance, Law and New Technologies

Finance and technology—Fintech, from the crasis of Finance and Technology—are currently present in many everyday activities. Innovation is creating huge opportunities but also new threats, which deserve to be examined and monitored. As already stated by the Financial Stability Board, a global approach is essential, however it needs to be shared with emerging economies. Technology and “Big Data” are changing the shapes of financial industry. Such a revolution pushes operators, investors and regulators towards unexplored territories, so that the legal and economic questions deriving therefrom need to be answered. The Business Science Department has started an interdisciplinary study, whose interesting results will be verified and delved into in the next two years