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• December 2025: Follow the money! An interesting new report on 'Venture Capital in Blockchain and Crypto' authored by Marta Zava (SDA Bocconi).
• Forthcoming: November 13th-17th 7th ACM International Conference of AI in Finance
• Forthcoming: January 20th 2026 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Machine Learning and Financial Decision Making: Quantitative Approaches (G. Savaré and M. Mezard co-organizers)
• November 21st 2025 Data-Driven Supply Chains for People, Planet, Profit Presentation of the MUSA results on greentech with a Keynote Speech by Prof. P. Veronesi 'On the economic infeasibility of personalized medicine, and an AI-based solution'
• November 8th Presentation at the Berlin Science Week of B-Ledger a Web 3.0 Platform for Business Network (Carbon) Accounting (Will be soon OpenSourced)
• September 25th-26th 2025 Fintech Lab @ Bocconi hosting the conference jointly organized by CEPR, Review of Finance, and European Central Bank on 'THE FUTURE OF PAYMENTS CBDC, DIGITAL ASSETS AND DIGITAL CAPITAL MARKETS'
• April 2025 DIGITAL EURO INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS “VISIONARY WORKSHOP – BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, FINTECH LAB” CET the ECB Innovation platform document
• New MacroFintech paper from the Fintech Lab researchers: Green Coins
• New MacroFintech paper from the Fintech Lab researchers: Supply Chain Uncertainty: Pricing, Growth & Blockchains
• May 16th-17th Bocconi conference on 'La decentralizzazione delle attività d'impresa'. Link to PNRR page
• May 6th presentation of 'Green Tech for Brown Networks' Conference on CLIMATE FINANCE
• Joint CEPR-BOCCONI Conference on Digital Assets September 15th 2023
• The Lab is part of the Musa Project Spoke 4. The first Milestone delivered from the Fintech Initiative
• The Lab sponsors the Conference on The regulation on Markets of Crypto-Assets
• The Lab supports the Workshop in Quantitative Finance
• The slides of the Lab activities. Invited talk at the Centers of Excellence 2023 Conference Barcelona.
• Integrating DLTs with market infrastructures: analysis and proof-of-concept for secure DvP between TIPS and DLT platforms. Paper and program of the technical meeting.
• The Lab Kick-off event: videos and slides of the presentations
• Fashion for good an initiative on fintech and sustainability jointly organized with Zero Lab

Research Insights

• Crypto Financial Markets and Institutions.
• Blockchain, the Economy and the Law.
• Digital Currencies with a special Focus on CBDC.
• Big Data and Machine Learning support for Financial Applications.
• Reputation, Trust, and Reputation Games: Exploring the Dynamics of Reputation in Game-Theory Contexts.
• Soulbound Tokens, DAOs, and the Rise of the Decentralized Society: Examining the Path to a New Paradigm.

Teaching Insights

• A crash introduction to the Blockchain by Zero Lab:
  • Slides
  • Videos

Current Contributors and Moderators @ Fintech Lab

The Lab acknowledges the interaction with the leading Bocconi Student Associations active in the area of Blockchain and Fintech space and a number of industry advisors to foster the interaction with the broader fintech community.

Why a wiki project: Introduction from the Scientific Director

Digital transformation is disrupting the financial sector and more generally industrial organization.  This collaborative wiki project offers an efficient medium to cluster and consolidate major achievements in the areas of interdisciplinary research interested by this innovation wave.  

The initial focus of the wiki will be on the financial and economic impact of distributed ledger and machine learning technologies.

The supervised contents included in the wiki are produced and made publicly available by experts of the Bocconi community with the unique goal of creating a common knowledge basis. It will hopefully reduce the time to build a solid scientific discipline in the new interdisciplinary areas that are emerging at the boundaries of both social and hard sciences.

Most of the public debate on these interesting topics takes place through social media and is unstructured. On the contrary, wiki contents are supervised in order to disentangle rigorous theoretical and empirical economic analysis from dangerous marketing narratives.

Moderators will accept a contribution only if it satisfies minimum consistency conditions with general financial economic principles. Wiki contributions may leverage on results already established and published in relevant academic sources like top-tier, peer-reviewed journals. Link to external sources is allowed, but the contributor is required to provide a clear assessment about the nature and the quality of the information retrieved from the source. The bibliography section at the end of each contribution provides a complete list of all utilized information sources.

Contributions are not intended to provide any financial advice and are exclusively intended to promote scientific discussion and dissemination.

The Scientific Director of the Fintech Lab

Claudio Tebaldi