Finextra: CCAF, World Bank, World Economic Forum launch second Covid-19 fintech impact study
The survey is aiming to collect information and from firms globally to gain insights into fintech performance during coronavirus pandemic. Bryan Zhang, Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), explains: “Our previous Rapid Assessment Study provided a…
New study aims to assess global fintech industry’s resiliency to COVID-19
Joint study between Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and the World Bank Group to provide essential data to assess the medium-to-longer term impact of the global pandemic on fintech firms worldwide.…
Addressing the fintech gender gap
Sara Coupe of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and Abby Butkus of the Catalyst Fund consider the forces for change, the importance of mentoring and how inspirations can come from a variety of sources when addressing the FinTech workplace…
Impact and engagement at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Each of our research centres has unique ways to engage with non-academic organisations and, through that, to generate real world impact. This month we are sharing the work of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.…
Fintech Times: The translation people on translation’s key role in growing the global fintech industry
A study on fintech and Covid-19 by co-authored at the Centre for Alternative Finance, based at Cambridge Judge Business School, is quoted in the Fintech Times article. The study found “there has been strong growth in all types of digital…
Kestrl – the Islamic fintech putting ethics and faith at the forefront of personal finance innovation in the UK
We meet the two start up entrepreneurs, Areeb Siddiqui (MBA 2018) and Daeng Termizi (MBA 2018) who pivoted their MBA towards innovation in the UK fintech sector. Kestrl's ambition is to become the UK's leading money manager by making it…
Yahoo Finance: 15 fastest growing fintech companies
A study on fintech and Covid-19 co-authored at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance featured in the article. The joint study with the World Bank showed that “fintech companies on average saw their transaction volumes increase by 13% in the…
Economy Next: Is Sri Lanka poised for a fintech boom post Covid-19?
A report on fintech during Covid-19 co-authored by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School featured in Sri Lanka’s outlet. The report found that although the global fintech industry is growing amid the pandemic, the growth…
Business Weekly: Cambridge-Singapore alliance to speed fintech research and commercialisation
New research agreement signed by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research & Education in Singapore (Cambridge CARES) establishes an Asia-Pacific-focused collaboration for the acceleration of tech-enabled…
Collaboration network expands in Asia Pacific
Agreement between Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and Asian Development Bank Institute to accelerate tech-enabled innovation and knowledge sharing. A research agreement signed by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), based at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge,…
