The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab is a cross-disciplinary research program on the global phenomenon of innovation in the financial industry induced by "Financial Technology” (FinTech). 

It involves researchers from banking and finance, business informatics, innovation management, strategic management, marketing, social sciences, economics, and many other disciplines. The lab`s goal is to conduct research on the topic of digitisation in the financial services industry together with participants from the whole value chain, including banks, insurers, providers, regulators, and various other organizations and associations from the FinTech ecosystem.

Hosted at the University of Zurich, the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab cooperates with a broad international network of universities like for example ETH Zurich, University of St. Gallen, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, and many others.

The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab from the University of Zurich and the Green Digital Finance Foundation from the Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance, a not for profit foundation founded by UN Environment and ANT Financial, are founding a new collaboration program at the interface of FinTech and green finance. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the collaboration aims to accelerate the development of the emerging field of “Green Digital Finance” which has so far been largely lacking in research, education, policy and in practical application and integration by ecosystem actors. More information can be found here.

On Nov. 5th, the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab from the University of Zurich hosted the 2nd "International FinTech, InsurTech & Blockchain Forum” at Kraftwerk in Zurich. The forum is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the global phenomenon of the digitization of financial services and brings together top researchers and practitioners. The conference was co-organized together with the NZZ Swiss International Finance Forum, a practitioners conference on Nov. 6th.

One of the advantages of blockchain technology is the ability to tokenize asset of any shape or from – from diamonds to property from art to cars. This turns previously non-bankable assets into bankable ones making illiquid assets into liquid and tradeable assets. There are a couple of challenges associated with this opportunity one of which is: how is the value of the tokenized assets to be determined? And how can this value be traced? There were prizes available of more than CHF 300’000. More information can be found here: https://hackathon.trustsquare.ch/portfolio/finance/

The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab continues its lecture on Blockchain in the spring semester 2020:
“Blockchain”

Read our blog on “FinTech” organized together with "Finanz und Wirtschaft” where the Swiss FinTech Community posts on a regular basis.