European Parliament, Report on FinTech: the influence of technology on the future of the financial sector (A8-0176/2017), 2017-04-28 ([Internet, 2017-08-03](http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A8-2017-0176+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN#title2))
The current rise of FinTech comes after the origination of a number of different technological developments within a short timespan, namely Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). These provide new opportunities for disruptions like mobile payments, open banking, crowdfunding, virtual currencies and robo-advice.