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15 - Digital Financial Transformation

Lessons from the EU

from Part III - Building Better Financial Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Ross P. Buckley
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Douglas W. Arner
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
Dirk A. Zetzsche
Affiliation:
Université du Luxembourg
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Summary

Europe’s path to digitisation and datafication in finance has rested upon four apparently unrelated pillars: (1) extensive reporting requirements imposed after the Global Financial Crisis to control systemic risk and change financial sector behaviour; (2) strict data protection rules; (3) the facilitation of open banking to enhance competition in banking and particularly payments; and (4) a legislative framework for digital identification imposed to further the European Single Market. This chapter suggests that together these seemingly unrelated pillars have driven a transition to data-driven finance. The emerging ecosystem based on these pillars aims to promote a balance among a range of sometimes conflicting objectives, including systemic risk, data security and privacy, efficiency, and customer protection. Furthermore, we argue that Europe’s financial services and data protection regulatory reforms have unintentionally driven the use of regulatory technologies (RegTech), thereby laying the foundations for the digital transformation of European Union (‘EU’) financial services and financial regulation. The EU experiences provide insights for other countries in developing regulatory approaches to the intersection of data, finance, and technology.

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Finance, Technology and Regulation
, pp. 234 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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