The Innovation Leaders Residency nurtures the development of world-class suptech experts and accelerates the digital transformation of financial supervision locally and globally.  Current employees of financial authorities in roles such as supervisors, examiners, data scientists, statisticians, economists, and other related positions are supported through a 12-month part-time, remote programme.

Selected candidates gain access to unique training, learning, fundraising and networking opportunities and are awarded with a stipend in support of their efforts to conduct research, prototype and pilot suptech solutions.

The Public-Private Secondments for SupTech Innovation initiative pairs highly trained experts from the private sector with financial authorities around the world. The initiative provides opportunities for short-term secondments for experts to apply their skillset to fill gaps identified by the financial authorities, enabling secondees and their organisations to have a meaningful impact on the world’s most pressing macro, socio-economic issues and the financial health of millions of people.

The Cambridge SupTech Lab regularly organises events and hackathons that convene data scientists, innovators, and technologists from around the globe to dive deep into supervisory data and identify practical solutions for pressing challenges. Furthermore, we organise public forums such as SupTech Week, an annual, virtual gathering of global suptech experts advancing the future of financial supervision. All stakeholders are encouraged to share their expertise by leading sessions, participating as content partners, sponsoring a portion or all of the event providing financial sponsorship, and co-hosting hackathons. For more ways to participate, email us at cambridgesuptechlab@jbs.cam.ac.uk.

We aim to accelerate a vendor marketplace where the demand for scalable, cutting-edge suptech applications is met by innovative, responsible vendors who understand financial authorities, their business cases and processes, their culture, and their protocols. The SupTech Vendor Database is a dynamic, web-based tool to explore off-the-shelf suptech applications and connect with vendors. 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.

All course and programme participants are connected through the Cambridge Regulatory Knowledge Exchange (RKE). RKE is a peer-led and community-driven online platform for financial supervisors, regulators and policymakers that already engages participants from 180+ jurisdictions in knowledge zones, collaborating on research projects, attending webinars, accessing thematic libraries, and taking advantage of digital tools designed for them.

The Cambridge SupTech Lab is leading several working groups to provide a space for peer-learning and exchange of expertise on priority issue areas. The input and perspectives by working group members further enrich and inform the development of publicly available research and digital tools. Groups are organised on a thematic basis or regional basis, such as by focusing on the modernisation of consumer protection supervision or on advancing suptech solutions in Africa.