THE FINTECH LAB
Rigorous research and bold insights shaping tomorrow’s financial landscape.
2025 Featured Research Presented by
Regulatory Co-Host, the Bank for International Settlements, and our Knowledge Partners—Global Digital Finance, Vanderbilt Law School, and the Singapore Management University Centre for Commercial Law in Asia
Thank you to the thought leaders who submitted cutting-edge research from around the world!
DC Fintech Week received dozens of paper submissions from international agencies, law firms, regulators, entrepreneurs and more. Below are those we thought deserved an extra shout out, with eye out to quality, geography, diversity of opinion, and varying stages of career development of authors.
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2025 Winning Papers
- Digital Payment Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Luca Ricci, Calixte Ahokpossi, Saad N Quayyum, Rima A Turk, Anna Belianska, Mehmet Cangul, Habtamu Fuje, Sunwoo Lee, Grace B Li, Xiangming Li, Yibin Mu, Nkunde Mwase, Jack J Ree, Haiyan Shi, Vitaliy Kramarenko
- Making stablecoins stable(r): can regulation help? Ulf Lewrick, Tirupam Goel, Isha Agarwal
- AI Actionability Over Interpretability, Michael Hsu
2025 Featured Research
- The Digital Euro as a Governance Tool: Institutional Implications for the European Central Bank? Francisco José Ciancetta
- The Role of Stablecoins in Financial Sovereignty, Conrad Kraft, Kene Ezeji-Okoye, Victor Warhem, Peter Bofinger, Vid Hribar, Anne-Sophie Kappel, Brian Sanya Mondoh, Jannah Patchay, Liv Tschee-Wegert
- Project “SAN”, Technical Report: Prototype of Tokenization for Domestic Settlement, Kasidit Tansanguan, Peerapong Thonnagith, Witit Synsatayakul, Nuntapun Bhensook, Jadesada Palotaitakerng, Tanakorn Kerdrattikal, Pakaporn Tohwisessuk, Prempoon Srimonta, Lalitwadee Damyos, Jakkapong Pansit, and Siwapol Jumnongsaksub
- Transaction Proximity: A Graph-Based Approach to Blockchain Fraud Prevention, Gordon Liao, Ziming Zeng, Mira Belenkiy, and Jacob Hirshman
- Fintech Innovations in Banking: Fintech Partnership and Default Rate on Bank Loans, Julapa Jagtiani, Catharine Lemieux, Brandon Goldstein
- From Digital Remittances to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Remittances Drive Financial Depth, Mario Miguel, Eric Parrado, Diego Fombona
- The Evolution of Decentralized Exchange: Risks, Benefits, and Oversight, Fahad Saleh, Campbell Harvey, Joel Hasbrouck
- Beyond Pilots and Sandboxes: Regulatory Innovation through SupTech Case Studies and Leading Practices, Nick Cook, Saket Narayan