FinTech, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
The FinTech, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation work explores market innovation and developments, analyzes alternative regulatory approaches, and offers policy recommendations to facilitate FinTech’s responsible development and to foster a more favorable economic environment for small businesses and entrepreneurs. We engage and educate policymakers and stakeholders to improve access to capital, financial inclusion, transparency, and compliance. Our guiding principle is to ensure that financial technology innovations and entrepreneurial opportunities are accessible to individuals and businesses while increasing the stability and efficiency of the US financial system.
- Access to capital and financial inclusion
- Alternative regulatory approaches
- Market innovation and developments
- Policy to facilitate FinTech’s responsible development
- Policy to foster a more competitive and innovative environment
- Transparency and compliance
- Artificial Intelligence and Agentic Commerce
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
- Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
- Future of Work
- Innovative Finance and Access to Capital
- Neo-Banking
- Small Business Data and Ecosystems
- Stablecoin and Tokenization
- Supply Chain Resilience
Small Business Policy and Innovation Initiative
Community bank consolidation, technology, globalization, and policy changes have disproportionately impacted small businesses and start-ups by fundamentally changing the competitive landscape and entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Small Business Policy and Innovation initiative aims to address these challenges through policy recommendations and program solutions to foster a more robust entrepreneurial environment and inclusive prosperity across regions and demographics.
FinTech, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
Most Recent Content
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Milken Institute FinTech Advisory Council 2023: Financial Inclusion in Focus
In This Issue Foreword from Milken Institute FinTech Director, Nicole Valentine Inclusion at Scale: Innovative Financial Systems with Jo Ann Barefoot Building Trust in Innovative Finance with Richard Berner Inclusion by Design: Going Beyond...Read Article -
FinTech in Focus—May 23: Global Conference FinTech Recap
In This Newsletter The FinTech Movement: Social Economic Mobility Strategies Moving Digital Assets Forward | Part 1: A Conversation with Rostin Behnam Moving Digital Assets Forward | Part 2: Digital Assets: From Creative Disruption to...Read ArticleImage
Maxwell DeGregorio
Associate Director, FinTech, Milken Institute FinanceMaxwell DeGregorio is an associate director at MI Finance at the Milken Institute. DeGregorio works on the Institute’s FinTech Program, which focuses on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance, and transparency. He writes the “FinTech in Focus” newsletter and co-programs the Institute’s FinTech content.
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