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The Political Economy of FinTech Disruptions

Governance
Institutions
Political Economy
Euro
P524
Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez
Vilnius University
Amy Verdun
University of Victoria
Annette Bongardt
Research Center in Political Science (CICP) – UMinho/UÉvora
Politics, Governance, and Society in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization: Challenges, Transformations, and Perspectives

Abstract

This panel examines financial technologies (fintech) as a source of political disruption rather than as a narrowly technical or market-driven phenomenon. While fintech and central bank digital currencies are often framed as innovations that enhance efficiency, inclusion, or competitiveness, the papers in this panel treat disruption as a process that reconfigures authority, governance, and power within European political economy and beyond. Drawing on recent debates in political economy, the panel approaches disruption not as a momentary shock but as a vector of change with magnitude and direction, shaping how states, central banks, and societal actors respond to digital finance.

Title Details
From Market-Maker to Market-Shaper: Para-Digmatic Policy Change in Europe’s Digital Sector. View Paper Details
Financial Bureaucracy Featuring Innovation Bureaucracy – Insights from Diverging Pathways in the Baltic States View Paper Details
Society in Action: Civil Society and Interest Mobilisation of CBDCs View Paper Details
Narratives of Fintech: The Political Economy of Disruptive Discourse View Paper Details
Disrupting Global Money? Public–Private Entanglements and the Geopolitics of Multicurrency CBDC Platforms View Paper Details