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Recent news & updates from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Research centre news
Addressing persistent gaps in women’s financial inclusion
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has launched the Women Regulators Network (WRN), powered by RKE, to address persistent gaps in women’s financial inclusion. Deborah Young, WRN Lead, shares what’s ahead for this vital initiative.
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Top 10 reads of 2025
Articles about artificial intelligence and sustainability were among the most popular stories on the Cambridge Judge Business School website in 2025, reflecting a year in which AI capabilities expanded apace and the November COP30 climate-change summit in Brazil focused attention on the environment.
AI and technology
How can AI in finance realise its full potential?
Kieran Garvey, AI Research Lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), and Bryan Zhang, Co-Founder and Executive Director of CCAF, explore why banks struggle to turn AI efficiency into growth.
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has launched the AI in Financial Services 2030 Global Surveys – a landmark worldwide study capturing intersecting perspectives from financial regulators, industry and AI vendors. Together, these insights will provide the most comprehensive view yet of AI adoption, impact, oversight and expectations for the decade ahead.
Research centre news
Driving ecosystem impact for fintech associations
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), in collaboration with the AllianceDFA, delivered a 3-part capacity building workshop series with the theme ‘Fintech Associations: driving ecosystem impact’ across June and July 2025. Here we explore primary takeaways from the sessions.
Research centre news
New online course to boost competition in developing markets
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) is partnering to deliver a new programme on competition in digital financial services (DFS) in key low- and middle-income countries, to embed a competition lens in regulation, supervision and policymaking of ecosystem stakeholders. Here we reveal the programme’s key aims.







