Our work

Projects & Working Groups

WAIFC is project-driven, and each project is sponsored by one or more financial centers. The value of WAIFC is in the success of those projects.

Completed

AI in Finance

How AI can help financial service providers in dealing with a never-ending avalanche of regulatory and reporting requirements

Completed

Art and Financial Centers

Creating partnerships between financial institutions and art organizations to provide funding and support for emerging artists.

Completed

Economic Recovery from the Pandemic

Promoting international cooperation and sustainable investments during this global health crisis

Completed

Financial Center Database

Enabling the WAIFC and its members to follow the developments in the financial industry

Completed

FinTech Initiative

Exchanging best practice in developing successful FinTech ecosystems

Completed

Future of Financial Centers

In 2030, financial centers will be green, smart, innovative, customer-centric, and inclusive.

Completed

Green Transformation of Supply Chains by FinCity.Tokyo

Achieving net zero through the end to end supply chains

Completed

Inclusive Finance

Analyzing the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services for people and businesses

Completed

Role of financial centers in financing the economy

Analyzing the role of financial centers for sustainable economic growth

Completed

SME Financing

Analyzing best practices in SME Financing among our members

Approved

Sustainability Reporting

FMF has asked ISSB to draft a chapter for the EMEA region. WAIFC members from EMEA are invited to provide their input and work with ISSB on this chapter.

Completed

Sustainable Finance

Developing practical and impactful recommendations on the role that financial centers can play to support the sustainability agenda

Completed

Talent

Financial Centers and the Growing Need for Expertise- Financial centers as hubs for high-caliber talent- The changing landscape of jobs and skills in financial centers

Running

Women in Finance

Building a more diverse and gender-equitable finance industry with the Women in Finance initiative.

Running

Regulatory Genome Project

Research initiative led by the University of Cambridge to support the adoption of an information structure standardising how financial regulatory information is classified globally.