Marion Laboure is a Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank in London and Lecturer at Harvard University. She has extensive private sector, public policy, and monetary policy experience, including at the European Commission, the IMF, the Luxembourg Central Bank, and Barclays. She received first prize from the American Society of Actuaries, Revue Banque nominated her as a rising star in finance, and Business Insider named her a cryptocurrency mastermind. Nicolas Deffrennes is a consultant, investor, entrepreneur, and lecturer. He is the founder of Le Grand Verre, an e-commerce platform for wine. As a venture capitalist, he helped to create the Aldermore Bank in London and also worked on digital, technological, and banking projects across Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia for McKinsey & Company.
Much is being written about fintech; little about how it may transform our lives. Based on new research, Laboure and Deffrennes explain how fintech will create new possibilities for people in advanced and low-income countries alike. -- Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England A panoramic view of the rapidly changing world of digital finance and money, Democratizing Finance spans a remarkable range of issues with clarity and depth, and provides an excellent primer on the social and economic aspects of rapidly-evolving fintech. -- Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University