Ivo Jeník

Senior Financial Sector Specialist

Ivo Jeník currently leads CGAP’s project on regulatory architecture at the frontier, including work on tokenization in finance, competition, and open finance supervision. He also leads CGAP’s work related to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures, including collaboration with the Financial Action Task Force. Previously he led work on regulatory innovation (open finance, regulatory sandboxes, crowdfunding), capacity building for policy makers (regulation and supervision of digital financial services), and emerging business models in banking across continents.

His professional experience spans across both the private and public sectors. Before joining CGAP, he worked in the Responsible Financial Access team at the World Bank, where he specialized in financial consumer protection and alternative dispute resolution. His professional experience spans across both the private and public sector, including serving as a compliance officer at an investment company and as Head of the Collective Investment Department at the Czech Financial Ombudsman.

Ivo has a Master’s degree in Law from Columbia Law School in New York and a Master’s degree in Law from Charles University in Prague.

By Ivo Jeník

Research

Regulatory Sandboxes and Financial Inclusion

A regulatory sandbox is a framework set up by a financial sector regulator to allow small-scale, live testing of innovations by private firms in a controlled environment under the regulator’s supervision. This explains key design elements, key benefits and associated risks, and hypothesizes about the use of sandboxes in advancing financial inclusion.
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Regulatory Sandboxes: Potential for Financial Inclusion?

Regulatory sandboxes are now being used to spur FinTech innovations in 18 countries. What impact could these new regulatory tools have on financial inclusion going forward?
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Crowdfunding in China: The Financial Inclusion Dimension

Last year, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China surpassed the US$100 billion threshold and confirmed China as the world’s largest P2P lending market, leaving North America a distant second. This tremendous growth was driven by a mix of circumstances.
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Remittance Frontiers: Banking Without Borders

TransferWise has launched “borderless” accounts, bringing cross-border banking to a new level. Could similar products serve communities in developing countries that depend on international remittances?
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Crowdfunding and Financial Inclusion

A financial innovation! The fastest growing financial industry! The next big thing in finance! Crowdfunding has garnered a lot of attention for its potential to further financial inclusion efforts.