Investigating driving and inhibitory contents of upstream documents in supporting the development of the country's FinTech industry

As Fintech is an emerging and growing industry in the world and consequently in the country, it faces various economic, political, cultural and social challenges in its development path, some of which are related to country’s economic and technological laws and regulations. Therefore, the present article has been written with the aim of reviewing and introducing the challenges of upstream documents in relation to the fintech industry. The research strategy of this paper is thematic analysis during which by studying the relevant documents and coding the selected clauses, the opportunities and threats of individual documents in relation to each of the ecological dimensions of the country's finitech industry have been identified and after presentation, have been approved by the elites. The findings of this study indicate the dominance of the restrictive and binding spirit over the laws and regulaions which is somehow acceptable given the industry’s newness in the country, but in the future, it is necessary for these documents to be more encouraging and motivating for businesses and entrepreneurs to ease their entry to the market. Also, according to the analysis, legislation and regulation has not grown in a balanced way in all dimensions of Fintech industry, while most of the existing laws concerns with the payment businesses and other Fintech areas has been neglected so far. Also, in addition to not covering all areas and dimensions of the monetary and financial technologies ecosystem, existing documents face serious challenges in issues such as determining the scope of responsibilities and powers of the central bank, risk coverage of users and investors, transparency and standardization of information flow in Fintech ecosystem, creating a balance between facilitating the replacement of financial technologists with traditional institutions such as banks, stock exchange investment companies and insurance, and other issues that are highly contribute to stabilization and development of this emerging ecosystem.