Keeping Pace with Change: Fintech and the Evolution of Commercial Law
Fintech Note 2022/001 provides guidance on modernizing commercial law frameworks to accommodate technological innovation while mitigating legal risks.
Banking Reports & Market Data (2026)
595 documents
Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: A Primer for Supervisors
Bitcoin block rewards fell from 12.5 Bitcoins to 6.25 Bitcoins in May 2020.
BigTech in Financial Services: Regulatory Approaches and Architecture
BigTech firms invested over $2 billion in fintech companies in 2020, with Alphabet generating 23 fintech investments alone.
SME Financing Outlook
Banks and credit unions remained the main lenders for 63% of SMEs, while 27% applied to government programs and 16% to Crown corporations.
Global Findex Country Brief: India
Account ownership in India grew from 35 percent of adults in 2011 to 78 percent in 2021.
Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Note
Only 41 percent of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa are financially resilient, defined as being able to access 5 percent of GNI per capita within 30 days.
Global Findex Gender Brief: Women and Financial Inclusion
Worldwide, 78 percent of men have an account, compared to 74 percent of women.
Open Banking Buyer's Guide
European ecommerce sales are projected by JP Morgan to reach €940 billion by 2023.
Financing Outlook: SME Business Investment and Financing Outlook Survey, Wave VII
The loan approval rate stood at 68% in December 2020 (with 42% fully authorized and 26% partially authorized), down from 77% in October 2020 as requests under review rose to 23%.
Distributed Ledger Technology Experiments in Payments and Settlements
Central banks in Brazil, Canada, the Euro Area/Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand have conducted large-value interbank payment DLT experiments.
Pulse of Fintech H2 2019
Global fintech investment across M&A, PE, and VC reached $135.7 billion across 2,693 deals in 2019.
State of Fintech: Investment & Sector Trends to Watch Q4 2019
In 2019, global VC-backed fintech funding reached $34.5B across 1,913 deals, a 15% year-over-year decline largely due to 2018 being inflated by Ant Financial's $14B round.
Institutional Arrangements for Fintech Regulation and Supervision
The IMF note examines the institutional frameworks for fintech regulation and supervision across 10 selected jurisdictions.
Euroscape 2020: Decacorn Unleashed
Venture capital investment in private cloud companies in Europe and Israel reached $9-9.5bn YTD 2020, up from $7-7.5bn in 2019 YTD.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2020
In 2019, almost CHF 2.3 billion was invested in 266 Swiss start-ups, representing an 85.5% increase compared with the previous year.
Regulation of Crypto Assets
In May 2019, major crypto exchange Binance suffered a cyberattack resulting in $41 million in Bitcoin being stolen.
The Rise of Digital Money
E-money and i-money represent new forms of digital money competing directly with traditional cash and bank deposits.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2019
In 2018, nearly CHF 1.24 billion in venture capital was invested in Swiss start-ups, representing an increase of 31.8% on the previous year.
India Private Equity Report 2019
Private equity investments in India reached $26.3 billion across approximately 793 deals in 2018, making it the second-highest investment year of the last decade.
Payment patterns in Sweden 2018
Six out of ten respondents used the mobile payment service Swish during the past month in 2018, compared to around 10 per cent in 2014.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2018
Total venture capital investment in Swiss start-ups reached CHF 937.7 million in 2017 across 175 financing rounds.
A portrait
Switzerland's financial sector employs over 200,000 people and generates nearly ten per cent of the country's gross domestic product.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2016
Venture capital investment in Swiss start-ups reached a peak of CHF 676 million across 120 financing rounds in 2015.
Mezzanine Finance: Neue Perspektiven in der Unternehmensfinanzierung
The publication is the 2nd edition released in 2004 as Volume 1 of the Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association series.
Hybride und mezzanine Finanzierungsinstrumente
The publication is published as Band 12 of the Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association book series.