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Grassi Laura

Researcher

Grassi Laura

Researcher

Laura Grassi is a professor of Investment Banking and Finance Lab courses at Politecnico di Milano, where she is also a Senior Assistant Professor.

In her role as Head of the Fintech and Insurtech Observatory, she is involved in research on financial incumbents and startups, with a particular emphasis on Europe as well as on international markets.

She is also Director of the evening Executive MBA programme at Politecnico’s business school, POLIMI Graduate School of Management.

Students are important to her, and she strongly encourages them to participate in international competitions, such as the CFA Institute Research Challenge, where they have reached the world finals on numerous occasions (among the five top universities worldwide out of 1,100 participants).

After attending conferences, congresses, Horizon project meetings (recently winning a funded project on climate insurance) and being frequently involved in research abroad, she always tries to return home as soon as she can to be with her family.

Career

PHD: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management Engineering - Finance, Politecnico di Milano.

Research

Her main research interest is in innovation and digitalization of the financial industry (Fintech and Insurtech), with a strong focus on strategical implications, business models and valuation, implementing both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Selected Publications

Grassi Lanfranchi Faes Renga, "Do we still need financial intermediation? The case of decentralized finance – DeFi", Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 19, 323-347

Lanfranchi Grassi, "Examining insurance companies’ use of technology for innovation", Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 47, 520-537

Giudici Grassi Momtaz, "Scaling up the FinTech business: Competition, regulation & data management", Journal of Economics and Business, 121

Grassi Lanfranchi, "RegTech in public and private sectors: the nexus between data, technology and regulation", Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 49, 441-479

Grassi Figini Fedeli, "How does a data strategy enable customer value? The case of FinTechs and traditional banks under the open finance framework", Financial Innovation, 8, 75

Community service

  • Director - Executive MBA Evening

Research projects