Quebec AMF Fintech Initiatives: Fintech Lab And Partnership With R3

On April 27, 2017, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) announced the creation of the Fintech Lab: a think tank equipped with exploration tools aimed at exploring the current and potential applications of new technologies by entities regulated by the AMF (e.g. financial cooperatives and other deposit-taking institutions, insurers, and market infrastructures such as stock exchanges) or in connection with activities regulated by the AMF (e.g. the business of trading in securities or advising in relation to trading in securities) and studying new technologies.

With the Fintech Lab, the AMF wishes to:

• deepen and update its understanding of new technologies;
• explore how the AMF could use new technologies to improve its own processes;