Supervisor of the Future: SupTech Frontiers
The Cambridge SupTech Lab accelerates the digital transformation of financial supervision, with a focus on building resilient, inclusive, and accountable financial sectors.
Power the paradigm shift in financial supervision
In an era of constant change, the financial sector is undergoing a rapid digital transformation that brings forth new challenges for supervisors. Technological advancements, data science breakthroughs, and innovative business models have disrupted markets and financial supervision itself.
To adapt to the emergence of new risks, financial authorities are reassessing their priorities and implementing risk-based approaches. They need to allocate resources effectively to ensure the sector’s oversight remains robust. Suptech is helping them to address these complexities.
Within this dynamic landscape, supervisors are facing a steep learning curve. They seek to grasp the intricacies of market activities, products, and institutions, and oversee increasing datafication, decentralisation, and globalisation of finance at the intersaction of new consumer behaviours, needs, and expectations.
At the core of this course lies the formulation of upgraded risk-assessment methodologies and data architectures that are firmly grounded in the evolving market dynamics. This transformation is placed within the broader context of a cultural shift towards “digital-first supervision,” enabling agencies to undergo incremental and realistic transitions towards this approach.
Online
Self-paced
Asynchronous
6 weeks
7h/week
This training is for You, if you
- Want to gain and develop in-depth insights into the complexities of emerging supervisory environments.
- Aim to implement suptech application to drive data-driven supervision.
- Are ready to adopt innovative data science mythologies to strengthen supervisory intelligence.
- Currently hold roles such as supervisor, regulator, policy maker, economist, examiner, actuary, analyst, data scientist or technologist within regulatory, supervisory, or policymaking authorities.
Testimonials
Upcoming 6th cohort starts on
26 January 2026
- Comprehensive understanding of the interplay between data, technology, and evolving business models in the financial sector
- A discovery of opportunities and challenges in the application of innovative technologies
- A pragmatic framework to assess and address the impacts of fintech and digital assets innovations, the related risks across supervisory areas, and ongoing market innovations
- Insights to formulate and develop digitally-first supervisory responses
- Reframing capabilities for supervisory processes, frameworks, and approaches
- The ability to identify supervisory use cases that suptech can upgrade or rearchitect
- Creative and strategic thinking for present and future suptech applications
- An innovation-inspired and digital-first mindset integrated into your agency’s operations
Curriculum
Get oriented and inspired
- Familiarise yourself with the scope, learning objectives and timeline of the training programme
- Feel inspired to think beyond the boundaries of your day-to-day job
- Explore the Digital SupTech Diagnostic tool
- Sketch capstone processes with teammates
1 week
Data and technology
- Examine data and tech tools deployed in fintech, regtech, and suptech products
- Describe data science best practices and key features of new technologies
- Assess practical and ethical implications of tech, and the related opportunities and risks
- Blueprint the “Data Stack” model for supervisory data management of your agency
- Identify dependencies and roles that are critical to suptech application development success
- Collaborate with members of your broader institution to begin the Digital SupTech Diagnostic
1 week
Financial technologies
CRYPTO, DIGITAL BANKING, ALTERNATIVE CREDIT SCORING, PEER-TO-PEER LENDING, DIGITAL PAYMENTS
- Investigate emerging fintech products and business models
- Discuss how they are reshaping the financial ecosystem
2 weeks
Paradigm shifts in financial supervision
- Identify and weigh the main drivers of supervised risks within your jurisdiction
- Describe, analyse, and evaluate the supervisory framework implemented in your agency
- Critically examine the impact of financial technologies on supervised risks
- Characterise risks where suptech applications could augment the supervisory capabilities of your agency
9 elective tracks. Select 2 tracks:
- CONSUMER PROTECTION AND MARKET CONDUCT
- PRUDENTIAL & BANKING
- PAYMENTS OVERSIGHT
- SECURITIES AAND CAPITAL MARKETS
- AML/CFT/PF
- DIGITAL ASSETS
- CYBER
- INSURANCE
- ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE
1 week
Supervisory innovation and suptech application
- Interpret the implications of the digitisation, datafication, decentralisation, and globalisation of financial services on existing supervisory frameworks
- Describe, analyse, and evaluate suptech applications
- Discuss and explain your Digital SupTech Diagnostic Toolkit output
- Author and present a capstone peer review presentation
With the guidance and support of experts from our team, instructors, and the training programme tutors, you will tackle a complex problem or undertake a strategic initiative within your agency and identify opportunities to resolve them leveraging the advancements in suptech, developing a well-reasoned strategy or solution. The project may involve conducting research, collecting and analysing data, and using relevant tools and methodologies provided by the Lab to arrive at informed decisions
- Demystify technology by gaining a clear understanding of its underlying concepts and principles
- Explore private sector data tools and delve into the study of best practices in data science
- Investigate the practical and ethical implications of technology, while also assessing the associated risks and opportunities
- Identify various financial technologies and engage in discussions about emerging business models, consumer behavior, and innovative products
- Determine opportunities for adapting supervisory frameworks and redefining priorities to effectively support the growth of the fintech innovative ecosystem
- Examine financial technologies’ impact on supervised risks and critique real-world use cases and applications
- Execute diagnostic exercises to sketch processes, assess suptech readiness, blueprint a ‘data-stack’ model, and identify priority areas for intervention
- Construct and map use cases and applications to innovate supervisory approaches and augment supervisory capabilities
YOUR CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Tuition Fee
Financial Authorities
USD 900/person
5 seats minimum
Individuals
USD 1,000
Financial Assistance
Financial assistance might be available for participants from emerging economies and developing countries. If funding represents a challenge, please connect with us.
DISCOUNTS FOR INDIVIDUALS
ENROLL IN 2 PROGRAMMES
USD 800*
ENROL IN 3 PROGRAMMES
USD 700*
*TUITION FEE PER PROGRAMME
The training programme is open to all individuals who currently hold positions such as supervisor, regulator, policymaker, economist, examiner, actuary, analyst, data scientist, or technologist within regulatory, supervisory, or policymaking authorities.
We highly encourage agencies to enrol individuals representative of the various roles relevant for the development of a suptech application, roadmap, strategy, open data project, innovation hub, or digital transformation initiative. Take special note of the discounted tuition fee for enrolment of 5 people or more.
Power your transformation!
GovSpace is our collaborative platform for data-driven diagnostics, co-design, and digital solution deployment. Built to power digital transformation and innovation across the SupTech ecosystem.
A community of communities that connects local priorities and innovation leaders to peers and global partners.
GovSpace will soon unify digital tools, knowledge assets, and collaboration environments developed by the Cambridge SupTech Lab into one secure and immersive AI-powered space.
As we transition, you may notice tools and services gradually moving under the GovSpace banner.
