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.

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On Oct. 24th, the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab from the University of Zurich will host the 1st "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 is co-organized together with the NZZ Swiss International Finance Forum, a practitioners conference on Oct. 25th. We accept short paper submissions to fintech@ifi.uzh.ch.

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