Building the finance of the future
Since 2019, Crédit Agricole CIB and Mazars have partnered with Paris Dauphine University's Fintech Chair through a partnership agreement aimed at contributing to the development of knowledge in the field of Fintechs and digital finance.
The challenge is to forge strong links between the partner companies, the talent pool, the academic institutions and university students. The Chair and its partners work together to create an ecosystem combining research, teaching and entrepreneurship in digital finance. Through panel discussions and annual conferences organised in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa, the Chair brings together, alongside its partners, leading academics and professional experts in France and on the world stage, to discuss digital finance issues.
These discussions provide the Chair with outstanding material to reflect on, allowing it to focus its research on practical issues while supporting the rise of cutting-edge entrepreneurial projects. Simultaneously, the Chair is developing its “research and teaching” component by creating courses in digital finance within master’s programmes and by financing a doctoral programme at the University of Paris Dauphine. In addition to their academic and professional significance, these initiatives help create a structured and regulated framework to support digital finance in the long term.
The Chair benefits from Dauphine University’s international academic network and works with recognised players in the Fintech ecosystem to encourage research through calls for projects with a global reach and the annual awarding of a prize for the best article.
Finally, on the entrepreneurial side, the Chair also supports key Fintech events with contests to support innovative projects in their operational deployment. The Chair also works in partnership with the Paris Dauphine incubator to support masters graduates in developing and financing their fintech projects.