Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF)

At the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance we study alternative finance, including financial channels and instruments that emerge outside of the traditional financial system.

Although various forms of alternative finance have long existed, the combination of weaker financial institutions following the financial crisis, disruptive disintermediation-enabling technology and underlying socio-economic as well as cultural shifts, is challenging the paradigm of how finance will be provisioned in the future.

To study this global shift in how finance is provisioned, which we believe is structural rather than transient, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has been established to conduct cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, rigorous and critical research on all aspects of alternative finance. It aims to have high impact not only on academic thought leadership, but also on policy decision-making and business practice globally.