Financial Regulation for the Digital Age

Financial regulation is entering the digital age, converting tools and strategies from analog to digital design. In the next decade, this transformation will reach critical mass and do for regulation what digitization does for everything else—make it better, faster, and cheaper. Financial institutions and their regulators have always been active technology adopters. Both finance and...

Technologies for market conduct supervision in a new digital era

Last year, as regulators across the world were grappling with the multiple effects of COVID-19 on their economies, one movement caught the attention of many of them: record-breaking volumes of consumer complaints. This trend, consistent in high-income countries such as the United States, was also observed in low- and middle-income countries such as Colombia. This marked increase...

SupTech: Moving from why to how

For many years, financial sector supervisors saw with skepticism the adoption of SupTech—essentially the use of technology-enabled solutions to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of supervisory activities. Many asked “why” they should be investing in these technologies, in a common first reaction to any process that will substantially impact the way things are done.Although some...