EU: A FINancial Supervision and TECHnology Compliance Training Programme (FIN-TECH)

At a glance

Project duration
01/2019  – 12/2020
Funded by

Horizon 2020: Coordination and Support Action (CSA)

Project description

Financial technology (FinTech) solutions that employ Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies are being introduced into the financial industry at an extraordinary rate. While they provide FinTech companies with ample opportunities, they also invite many challenges, such as cyberattacks, contagion risks and compliance concerns, which are of key interest to regulators and supervisory bodies. The EU-funded FIN-TECH project aims to create a European training programme that offers shared risk management use cases that can be proposed to automatise compliance of FinTech companies, and to increase the efficiency of supervisory activities. In a nutshell, the project aims at boosting the European FinTech ecosystem by delivering standardised procedures for FinTech risk management.

Project head

  • Person

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle

    • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
    • Statistics

Cooperation partners

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityRomania

    Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

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    UniversitySpain

    Complutense University of Madrid

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    Germany

    Firamis

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    Non-university research institutionPortugal

    INESC TEC- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science

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    Slovenia

    Institut Jozef Stefan

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    UniversityLithuania

    Kaunas University of Technology

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    UniversityCzech Republic

    Masaryk University

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    UniversityGreece

    Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

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    UniversityFrance

    Pantheon-Sorbonne University

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    UniversityItaly

    Politecnico di Milano

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    UniversityIreland

    University College Dublin

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    UniversityGreat Britain

    University College London

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    UniversityBulgaria

    University of Economics - Varna

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    UniversitySlovakia

    University of Economics in Bratislava

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    UniversityLuxembourg

    University of Luxemburg

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    UniversityItaly

    University of Pavia - Universita Degli Studi di Pavia

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    UniversityCroatia

    University of Rijeka Faculty of Economics and business

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    UniversityFinland

    University of Tampere ; Tampere University of applied sciences

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    UniversityPoland

    University of Warsaw

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    UniversityAustria

    Vienna University of Economics and Business

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    UniversitySwitzerland

    Zurich University of Applied Sciences

  • Cooperation partner
    Non-university research institutionItaly

    modefinance