a novel regulatory approach to big tech and fintech …
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A NOVEL REGULATORY APPROACH TO BIG TECH AND FINTECH CREDIT?
EUI/FBF WEBINAR 28 JANUARY 2021
PHILIPP PAECH, LSE
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For FinTech?
For ‘traditional’
Finance?
Goals of Regulation?
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Rationales for Regulation
Systemic Stability
Monetary Policy
Micro-prudential
Macro-prudential
Infrastructure Resilience, incl.
cloud
Growth/Efficiency
MonetaryPolicy
Market integrity
Principal-agent problem
'Conduct'
AML
Competition
Access regulation
Level playing field
Monopoliesetc
Data concentration
Consumer Protection
Fundamental rights
Financial inclusion
Personal data
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SECURING MARKET SHARE
• Efficiency gains
• Transformation
• Securing market positionIncumbents
• Move into all parts of the value chain
• Using existing customer baseBigTechs
• Innovation
• Disruption (cutting out intermediaries)
FinTech enabled Challengers
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BIG REGULATORY SHIFTS?
Tech-enabled Challengers
BigTechs
Generally
regulated as
financial
institutions
(banks, PS
providers, E-
money inst.)
Partly regulated
for services
other then
financial. Too
light given their
importance in
many fields.
Finance: multi-
facetted role,
various levels of
value chain,
concentration
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BIGTECHS’ MULTI-FACETTED ROLE
Infrastructure providers
• Cloud (example: Amazon, Google, IBM, Tencent). Basic infrastructure for others.
• Ecosystems, such as operating systems and app stores.
Provide services directly
• Typically commencing with payments for goods and services, or transferring money between clients.
• Lending to merchants using their platforms, and ultimately to clients (consumers).
• As a conduit for other service providers, or
• for their own account/on their own balance sheet.
• Increasingly adding insurance, including health insurance
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GENERAL REGULATORY PRINCIPLES
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‘Same activity, same risk, same rule’
Technological neutrality
Neutrality regarding type of market player
Clarification of applicability of existing regulation
Exceptional: novel type of regulation
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STRUCTURAL CHANGE REQUIRES REVISITING FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK (GENERAL)
Level playing field
•amongst different types of market participants
•Cross-border
Scaling up of business
•Remove fragmentation between jurisdictions
Legal certainty
•Clarify applicability of regulation to new ways of providing financial services and novel products
Prudential resilience
• interconnectedness and concentration
• Including operational resilience
•Updated requirements for gaining a license
Protect consumers and SMEs
•Personal and non-personal data
Extend regulatory perimeter
•Crowdfunding
•Crypto assets services
Financial crimeData economy, including non-personal data regulation
Dismantle/avoid dominant position and lock-in effect
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(HIGHLIGHTED: IN RELATION TO BIGTECHS)
Level playing field
•amongst different types of market participants
•Cross-border
Scaling up of business
•Remove fragmentation between jurisdictions
Legal certainty
•Clarify applicability of regulation to new ways of providing financial services and novel products
Prudential resilience
• interconnectedness and concentration
• Including operational resilience
•Updated requirements for gaining a license
Protect consumers and SMEs
•Personal and non-personal data
Extend regulatory perimeter
•Crowdfunding
•Crypto assets services
Financial crimeData economy, including non-personal data regulation
Dismantle/avoid dominant position and lock-in effect
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REGULATORY APPROACH: INTEGRATED & RISK-BASED(MAINLY SHAPING BIGTECH REGULATION)
Risk-based
approach
Macro-prud.
Conduct
Consumer protection
Data
Micro-prud.
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QUESTIONS?
© PHILIPP PAECH
ATTORNEY AT LAW (FRANKFURT)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FINANCIAL REGULATION
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS