Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

The CCAF is forging a cutting-edge, multidisciplinary and collaborative research agenda in:

• The development of alternative financing instruments, channels and systems that emerge outside of the traditional financial ecosystem.
• The emergence of digital assets / digital money and associated business, regulatory and climate implications.
• Fintech regulation and approaches to regulatory innovation.
• Supervisory technology its application in financial authorities.
• The development of digital market and regulatory infrastructure for instance in open banking and open finance

Our faculty, research associates and research affiliates publish and create a wide range of high-impact work – from peer-reviewed academic papers, high-profile industry reports, cutting-edge regulatory and supervisory studies as well as open-access and scalable digital tools. This body of work extends the boundaries of knowledge while promoting the collaboration and engagement with a community of academics, practitioners, business leaders, policymakers and regulators.

We provide innovative and engaging capacity building and education courses for central bankers, regulators, supervisors and policymakers as well as for corporate and institutional partners. The CCAF is currently offering executive education courses on fintech and regulatory innovation, supervisory technology, digital assets and soon open finance. To date, the CCAF executive courses have trained more than 2,000 regulators and policymakers from 315 financial authorities in over 145 countries.