Alistair is Professor of Financial Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University. Previously he worked at Bayes Business School, Bank of England, University of Surrey, London Business School, HM Treasury and for the Government of Malawi. He has a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. His research spans financial technology, money and central banking, bank capital and risk management and financial regulation. He is the author of a comprehensive account of the 2007-08 crisis “The Fall of the House of Credit”.
In recent years the focus of his research and policy analysis has been on the economics of data technologies in money and financial services. Much of this work is on payments and digital currencies. He has written several papers on technology in global capital markets and payments for the SWIFT institute. He was the principal investigator of the TECHNGI project www.techngi.uk on AI and insurance, part of the UK £20mn Next Generation Services Research Challenge. He has also worked recently on disaster risk finance and on the potential application of insurance solutions to the current Covid-19 and future pandemics.
His primary interest in the TAPP network and in research on international trade is on the digital facilitation of trade. Specifically, his interests here are in: the creation and adoption global standards to support automation of operational processes in trade, including payments and insurance; and in addressing the co-ordination, business and regulatory barriers to automation of trade processes
