Today’s very short post reacts to a recent article in Reuters that discussed how some of the leading business schools across the United States are starting to embrace the demand to provide so-called ‘FinTech’ related course (‘FinTech’ being the amalgamation of Financial Technology, which covers a range of technologies). For this post, we will discuss how that demand is being met in a very varied way in terms of the ideology of FinTech, and also the importance of which ideology is championed by academia with regards to the wider effect of FinTech being used to facilitate predatory finance rather than, say, financial inclusion which is something discussed before here in Financial Regulation Matters ; the role of academia, in this sense, is absolutely vital in determining the size of the next financial bubble. Crudely, ‘FinTech’ can be understood as any technological innovation within the financial sector , which may apply to increasing financial literacy or to facilitating the de...