The Digital Finance Institute was founded in 2014, and represents a strategic link among industry, academia, financial regulators and policy makers to promote sector vibrancy, resiliency and responsible finance through leadership, advocacy, research and education.
Our goal is to support the development of the digital finance technology, and financial inclusion through balanced regulation and market provision of digital finance services. We do this by conducting research, providing advice and developing capacity building for industry, regulators, market players and affected members of the market.
What We Do
We aim to become a globally recognised centre of excellence in digital financial market development and digital financial regulation, actively linking and supporting industry, government, policy makers, financial regulators, and academia to:
- Provide leadership in innovation digital financial market developments and best practice regulatory and policy responses;
- Be an effective manager of market risk leading to economic strength, stability and growth; and
- Contribute to the development of digital finance commerce.
Areas of Interest
The areas of interest of the Digital Finance Institute are:
- To advance digital financial technology and provide leadership in the development of digital finance;
- To develop international collaborations and initiatives for standardized and balanced regulation over digital payments and remittances;
- To develop responsible financial innovative solutions to solving problems of financial inclusion;
- To monitor regulatory performance and reform for effective financial consumer and investor protection; and
- Participate in emerging digital finance markets, such as carbon emission credits, environmentally motivated markets, and other sectors.
Flagship Events
The Digital Finance Institute provides a number of networking and shared learning opportunities for leaders from within industry, regulatory agencies and, academia to explore high level strategic issues. Stakeholders are brought together for workshops, conferences, seminars, presentations, policy briefings, public lectures, roundtables and symposiums.
We have organized a number of flagship events including, since 2015, an annual FinTech and AI Awards, and an annual FinTech Canada Conference. We have also created and organized, from time to time, the AI World Forum.
The FinTech and AI Awards recognize Canadian innovators at an annual gala dinner, including FinTech innovation, financial inclusion and other leadership categories. The AI World Forum showcases Canadian artificial intelligence leadership, and FinTech Canada provides opportunities for Canadian and international finance companies to share knowledge, innovation and inspiration to a global audience in Canada.
International Events
The Digital Finance Institute has brought financial technology leadership to other corners of the world, including launching the first FinTech conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
Leadership
The Digital Finance Institute has been invited to speak at numerous global conferences and bodies including the United Nations, the FATF, APEC, Miliken Institute, UK FinTech Week, Sibos, Money 20/20, FinTech Hong Kong, Singapore FinTech Week, Consensus, and the ACAMS Financial Crime Las Vegas Annual Conference.