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Research Team & Contributors

The Cambridge Alternative Finance Benchmarks initiative is a digital platform created and managed by the Digital Tools Team at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance: Anton Dek, Yue Wu, Damaris Njoki, Valentina Gotti.

The project is aimed to unify and visualise the data collected by the CCAF's Global Benchmarking Research Team, which since 2013 has been collecting time-series data from FinTech firms that undertake digital lending and capital raising activities. The primary research team of this database includes:  

Tania Ziegler (CCAF), Rotem Shneor (UoA), Krishnamurthy Suresh (CCAF), Neha Kekre (CCAF), Felipe Ferri de Camargo Paes (CCAF), Bryan Zhang (CCAF), Karsten Wenzlaff (CCAF), Leyla Mammadova (CCAF), Charles Wanga (CCAF), Stanley Mutinda (CCAF), Britney Wanxin Wang (CCAF), Cecilia López Closs (CCAF) and Nafis Alam (APU).  

Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the University of Agder, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank Institute, the CME Group, Invesco, the FCDO, and the World Bank Group for their contribution and support in our continued research efforts and annual reporting.  

The research team would also like to thank Raghavendra Rau, Herman Smit, Zhenkai Ran, Robert Wardrop, Hunter Sims, Emmanuel Schizas, Jon Frost, Diego Herrera, Rui Hao, Patrick Conteh, Nick Drury and Yassar Nasser for supporting this project and providing valuable feedback and suggestions.  

The Research Team would also like to express our gratitude to the FCDO for its continued support of our work, and we would like to particularly thank Kim Bromley and Kathryn White for their insights and guidance.