The Cambridge SupTech Lab accelerates the digital transformation of financial supervision to foster resilient, transparent, accountable, sustainable, and inclusive financial sectors.
The Lab catalyses the integration of innovative technologies and data science into supervisory processes to meet both enduring and emerging challenges in the rapidly changing financial landscape. Through the Lab, financial authorities have championed the adoption of advanced suptech solutions to address pressing issues such as financial crime, fraud, exclusion, climate change enablers, consumer protection, and artificial intelligence biases.
Our global, multidisciplinary team has partnered with financial authorities’ executives, supervisors, and data scientists to craft solutions throughout the entire innovation lifecycle, from data governance to AI-powered strategies, from the drawing board to full-scale deployment and expansion of cutting-edge suptech applications.
The Lab is housed at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), University of Cambridge Judge Business School, leveraging foundational intellectual property and know-how from the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A).
What We Do
Research &
Intelligence
Insights to help financial authorities stay on top of digital transformation and suptech trends and developments.
Capacity
Building &
Education
Online training programmes and educational resources to develop the skills required to support and lead a digital transformation and suptech adoption.
Application
Incubation
De-risked suptech prototype development and deployment with established vendors.
Technical
assistance
Technical support and expert advice in digital transformations and suptech adoption.
Ecosystem
accelerator
Connecting and growing the community of financial supervision creating synergies across the suptech ecosystem.
Digital Tools
SupTech Vendor Database
The SupTech Vendor Database is a dynamic, web-based tool to explore off-the-shelf suptech applications and connect with vendors.
SupTech Solutions Tracker
The SupTech Solutions Tracker has been designed to allow users to navigate our global catalogue of financial authorities’ suptech solutions by use case, status and geography.
Digital SupTech Diagnostic
The Digital SupTech Diagnostic is an application that provides financial authorities with a snapshot of their capabilities by assessing their digital infrastructure, data architecture, tech stack, processes and key roles across a comprehensive set of supervisory use cases.
Blog
Suptech vs financial crime: Unlocking the full potential of data and digital tools in the fight against illicit financial flows
* Keynote presentation during the 3rd Symposium of the Global Forum on Illicit Financial Flows and Sustainable Development, June 4th and 5th, 2024 In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, data is the cornerstone of effective anti-money laundering and countering the...
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Suptech and greenwashing: A desirable paradigm shift
By Maryeliza Barasa and Samir Kiuhan-Vasquez Retail and institutional investors increasingly choose to invest in assets that align with biodiversity, climate, and other sustainability goals. This trend has led to a surge in the number of financial products claiming to...
Women in banking: Interview with Sonja Kelly, Women World Banking
For the month of March, in honor of International Women's Day, the Cambridge SupTech Lab will be featuring inspiring leaders of women in finance and financial supervision. We asked them questions about women in banking as well as about career advice and mentorship....
Women’s economic empowerment: Interview with Clara Arthur, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
For the month of March, in honor of International Women's Day, the Cambridge SupTech Lab will be featuring inspiring leaders of women in finance and financial supervision. We asked them questions about financial inclusion as well as about career advice and mentorship....
News
In the SupTech Loop #20
Hi Suptech Community, Welcome to the 20th issue of the Cambridge SupTech Lab bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter, a source for updates on recent innovations, breakthroughs, opportunities, upcoming events in the suptech field, and news from the Cambridge SupTech Lab team. If...
In the SupTech Loop #19
Hi Suptech Community, We hope that you are finding value in In the Loop! Please click here to take a short, five-minute survey to let us know what you like about the newsletter and how we might continue to improve it! Welcome to the 19th issue of the Cambridge SupTech...
In the SupTech Loop #18
Hi Suptech Community, We hope that you are finding value in In the Loop! Please click here to take a short, five-minute survey to let us know what you like about the newsletter and how we might continue to improve it! Welcome to the 18th issue of the Cambridge SupTech...
In the SupTech Loop #17
Hi Suptech Community, Welcome to the 17th issue of the Cambridge SupTech Lab bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter, a source for updates on recent innovations, breakthroughs, opportunities, upcoming events in the suptech field, and news from the Cambridge SupTech Lab team....
Events
SupTech Hackathon 2023
The collaboration between the Cambridge SupTech Lab and the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) culminated in the SupTech Hackathon 2023. This event, held virtually from July 26 to August 4, convened data scientists, innovators, and technologists from around the...
Next GenAI Tech Showcase
The Cambridge SupTech Lab and the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) held an open call for generative AI (GenAI)-enabled solutions that could address some of the challenges that financial authorities face. The showcase helped financial authorities to understand...
AI in Finance: FSB Roundtable Discussion
On 10 April 2024, the Financial Stability Board hosted the "Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and its Role in a Changing Financial System" at the Central Bank of Ireland. Matt Grasser joined the conversations and presented some of the ongoing work from the...
Matt Grasser co-moderates session at Japan FinTech Festival
Matt Grasser co-moderated the Computational Regulation & Supervision - Harmonising Form and Function for Actionable Intelligence roundtable session in Tokyo at the Japan FinTech Festival. Matt and his partner-moderator Robert Wardrop convened global financial...